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UCLA refused to provide interviews or answer questions about their policing response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, a Democrat whose district includes UCLA, issued a statement condemning the violence against pro-Palestinian protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The horrific acts of violence against UCLA students and demonstrators that occurred on campus last night are abhorrent and have no place in Los Angeles or in our democracy,” Zbur said Wednesday. “No matter how strongly one may disagree with or be offended by the anti-Israel demonstrators’ messages, tactics, or goals, violence is never acceptable and those responsible must be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few days, UC Irvine and UCLA declared their campus encampment protests illegal and in violation of the state education code against non-UC use of university property. Many pro-Palestinian student advocates see this position as an attempt to disrupt their advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In responding to the encampments, the UC, unlike some universities, had avoided an aggressive law enforcement response. The UC Campus Safety plan, however, has not been uniformly followed at each campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine appeared to ignore the campus safety plan. When an encampment was erected on April 29, the university immediately called in the UC police department, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and the police forces of Irvine, Costa Mesa and Newport. Officers in riot gear barricaded the encampment entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine spokesperson Tom Vasich described the decision to involve five law enforcement departments as “a standard response” for situations where the campus needs support while simultaneously describing the protest as a “very peaceful environment.” He attributed the police response to potential trespassing violations from people not affiliated with the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a free speech issue, this is a trespassing issue,” Vasich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara, a UC Irvine student studying psychological sciences who only gave her first name in fear of retaliation for participating in the protest, said that at around 9 a.m. on Monday, law enforcement prevented students from entering the encampment and giving protesters water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite police pushback, she said students and bystanders later created barricades around their encampment, allowing students to enter the area and receive supplies. “The students here all know the risks,” Sara said. “But regardless, they stood their ground and will continue to stand their ground until our demands are met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman said in a \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.uci.edu/communications/campus/2024/240429-campus-activity-update.php\">Monday night statement,\u003c/a> “We support the right of our community to protest,” but they hope protesters “do not insist on staying in a space that violates the law.” Gillman promised to work with students to find a different location “that is appropriate and non-disruptive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-the-uc-plan-is-supposed-to-ensure-safety\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the UC plan is supposed to ensure safety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The UC Campus Safety Plan is being put to the test amid heightened tensions between pro-Palestinian groups calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and for the UC to financially divest from companies with ties to Israel and pro-Israel groups counterprotesting and calling the actions of those in the encampments anti-semitic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984780\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20.jpg\" alt='A red and white sign two people hold says \"Our Demands 1. END THE SILENCE 2. FINANCIAL DIVESTMENT 3. ACADEMIC BOYCOTT 4. STOP THE REPRESSION\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign with students’ demands at the “Free Palestine Camp” outside of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The UC Office of the President released a statement on April 26 rejecting demands for divestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California has consistently opposed calls for boycotts against and divestment from Israel,” the statement said. “While the University affirms the right of our community members to express diverse viewpoints, a boycott of this sort impinges on the academic freedom of our students and faculty and the unfettered exchange of ideas on our campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Drake’s office refused multiple requests from CalMatters to answer questions about UC’s response to campus encampment protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC’s policing reforms came after the system faced several high-profile instances of excessive force in response to student advocacy on campuses. In 2011, the Occupy Wall Street \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/14/university-of-california-davis-paid-consultants-2011-protests\">protests\u003c/a> at UC Davis drew international attention when peaceful activists were pepper sprayed by the university’s police department. In the end, students won a $1 million settlement from UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, racial justice organizations and Black student unions at the UC’s nine undergraduate campuses led protests over the police custody murder of George Floyd and cast a light on other Black Americans killed by law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984779\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07.jpg\" alt=\"Two multicolored signs are hung outside an academic building on a campus with tents in front of the steps.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participate in the “Free Palestine Camp” demonstration outside of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their activism elevated negative experiences that some students of color reported with campus police. Students and employees demonstrated against racial profiling and a lack of police transparency. Some pushed for reforms; others called for abolishing police on university campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2021 safety plan instituted data dashboards, police advisory boards, mental health responders and professional accreditation for individual police departments. According to the UC’s director of community safety, Jody Stiger, all 10 campuses are expected to put the plan into action — with the final, delayed step being professional accreditation for campus law enforcement agencies — by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Cops Off Campus Coalition, composed of UC students and faculty, has criticized the safety plan for not acknowledging the structural biases of police forces and only increasing the scope of policing power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Riverside Black Studies professor and faculty coalition member Dylan Rodríguez described the Campus Safety Plan as largely reactionary. He said it is the UC’s attempt to quell a push for police abolition in the wake of the UC’s own crises and Floyd’s murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a response to a period of time in which there are deep questions, fundamental and abolitionist questions, about whether campuses should have fully armed, militarized and, sometimes, riot-gear equipped and SWAT team-trained police officers on their campuses,” Rodríguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stated aim of UC’s tiered response is to use several non-sworn responders in calls for emergencies that don’t require police. Relying on alternatives to police allows campuses to respond to students in crisis who require mental health support or intervention. The plan also establishes public safety officers to patrol residence halls on foot, escort students across campus at night, provide security for events and diffuse unsafe behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with CalMatters before this week’s violence, Stiger praised the increase of unarmed security guards and guidance against a police presence at protests. Police were not called to the scene during recent labor strikes nor for earlier protests on both sides of the Gaza war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In almost a majority of those on every campus, you don’t see any police. You might see maybe one or two that are just in the area, but you don’t see a major police presence,” Stiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Tuesday, the university delivered a formal letter to UCLA’s Divest Coalition declaring the encampment an unlawful assembly in violation of campus policy. Chancellor Block put out a statement that said the university removed demonstrators’ barricades blocking entrances to specific buildings and warned that students could face suspension or expulsion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus police chiefs at UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine refused several requests for comment from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Student Association — systemwide student representatives — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6XChA5SiDk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">published\u003c/a> a statement on April 29 in solidarity with students protesting for “Free Palestine” and condemning the law enforcement response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We demand that the UC, at a minimum, allow students to exercise their freedom of speech,” the statement read. “We denounce any use of police force to silence us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For the record: This article was updated to reflect that Chancellor Howard Gillman’s statement promised he would work with student protesters but did not make a promise against police intervention against the student protesters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sergio Olmos contributed reporting from the scene. Christopher Buc\u003c/em>\u003cem>hanan, Li Khan and Hugo Rios also contributed to this story. All three are fellows with the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/education/higher-education/college-beat/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>College Journalism Network\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before dawn on Wednesday, police demolished a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA — using flash bangs, firing projectiles at protesters and arresting those who refused to leave. It was in stark contrast to the scene overnight Tuesday when counterprotesters had torn at barricades, thrown fireworks, and beat and pepper sprayed the protesters — and no law enforcement officers intervened or made any arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason for such a mixed response from law enforcement is haphazard adherence to UC President Michael Drake’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/uc-operations/systemwide-community-safety/policies-and-guidance/community-safety-plan/uc-community-safety-plan.pdf\">2021 UC Campus Safety Plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encampments at a growing number of universities across the state and nation are sparking battles between students’ free speech and campus policies against trespassing and obstructing operations. For the University of California system, the encampments at five campuses have been a test of newly implemented campus policing reforms meant to address systemic racism post-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake’s safety plan states: “The University will reinforce existing guidelines that minimize police presence at protests, follow de-escalation methods in the event of violence and seek non-urgent mutual aid first from UC campuses before calling outside law enforcement agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan was designed to deter potential violence — and reduce a police role in campus protests. But now, people are questioning why law enforcement did not break up any of the physical assaults or otherwise intervene as violence escalated at the Los Angeles campus on Tuesday. According to a statement Drake released on Tuesday, there were at least 15 injuries and one hospitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“My office has requested a detailed accounting from the campus about what transpired in the early morning hours today,” Drake said on Tuesday. “But some confusion remains. Therefore, we are also ordering an independent external review of both UCLA’s planning and actions, and the effectiveness of the mutual aid response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC lecturers were quick to call for Block’s resignation on Wednesday, citing the mismanagement of police and security response to the overnight violence. He had already planned to step down on July 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chancellor Block has refused to meet with protesters to discuss their interests; instead, he has created an environment that has escalated tensions and failed to take meaningful action to prevent the violence that occurred last night,” the UC lecturers’ statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counterprotesters had set off fireworks around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and later, armed with pepper and bear spray, physically attacked those residing in the pro-Palestinian encampment. During this time, university-hired, unarmed security guards and campus public safety aides watched the scene but did not stop the attacks. By about 1:30 a.m., Los Angeles Police and the California Highway Patrol arrived after the chancellor called them to assist security guards and UC police. The officers did not break up the violence. Instead, they advanced a line every few minutes to push the counterprotesters out of the area. Some of the counterprotesters who remained, however, continued their assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 4 a.m. Wednesday, a small group of student journalists for the Daily Bruin, including Christopher Buchanan, a student fellow for the CalMatters College Journalism Network, were confronted by a group of counterprotesters who began berating them. They targeted the staff’s news editor, calling her names, and blocked the journalists’ route to the Daily Bruin office. One shined a strobe light into Buchanan’s face while others attacked him as he fell to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After I was struck and debilitated, I was surrounded by four to seven counterprotesters who proceeded to punch and kick my head and torso for thirty seconds to a minute,” Buchanan said. “I didn’t sustain any internal injuries, but I was badly bruised on the body and face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchanan said this all happened within earshot of CHP officials, who did nothing to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students and government officials decried UCLA’s response to the counterprotesters’ attack. UCLA refused to provide interviews or answer questions about their policing response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, a Democrat whose district includes UCLA, issued a statement condemning the violence against pro-Palestinian protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The horrific acts of violence against UCLA students and demonstrators that occurred on campus last night are abhorrent and have no place in Los Angeles or in our democracy,” Zbur said Wednesday. “No matter how strongly one may disagree with or be offended by the anti-Israel demonstrators’ messages, tactics, or goals, violence is never acceptable and those responsible must be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few days, UC Irvine and UCLA declared their campus encampment protests illegal and in violation of the state education code against non-UC use of university property. Many pro-Palestinian student advocates see this position as an attempt to disrupt their advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In responding to the encampments, the UC, unlike some universities, had avoided an aggressive law enforcement response. The UC Campus Safety plan, however, has not been uniformly followed at each campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine appeared to ignore the campus safety plan. When an encampment was erected on April 29, the university immediately called in the UC police department, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and the police forces of Irvine, Costa Mesa and Newport. Officers in riot gear barricaded the encampment entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine spokesperson Tom Vasich described the decision to involve five law enforcement departments as “a standard response” for situations where the campus needs support while simultaneously describing the protest as a “very peaceful environment.” He attributed the police response to potential trespassing violations from people not affiliated with the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a free speech issue, this is a trespassing issue,” Vasich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara, a UC Irvine student studying psychological sciences who only gave her first name in fear of retaliation for participating in the protest, said that at around 9 a.m. on Monday, law enforcement prevented students from entering the encampment and giving protesters water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite police pushback, she said students and bystanders later created barricades around their encampment, allowing students to enter the area and receive supplies. “The students here all know the risks,” Sara said. “But regardless, they stood their ground and will continue to stand their ground until our demands are met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman said in a \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.uci.edu/communications/campus/2024/240429-campus-activity-update.php\">Monday night statement,\u003c/a> “We support the right of our community to protest,” but they hope protesters “do not insist on staying in a space that violates the law.” Gillman promised to work with students to find a different location “that is appropriate and non-disruptive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-the-uc-plan-is-supposed-to-ensure-safety\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the UC plan is supposed to ensure safety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The UC Campus Safety Plan is being put to the test amid heightened tensions between pro-Palestinian groups calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and for the UC to financially divest from companies with ties to Israel and pro-Israel groups counterprotesting and calling the actions of those in the encampments anti-semitic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984780\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20.jpg\" alt='A red and white sign two people hold says \"Our Demands 1. END THE SILENCE 2. FINANCIAL DIVESTMENT 3. ACADEMIC BOYCOTT 4. STOP THE REPRESSION\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_20-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign with students’ demands at the “Free Palestine Camp” outside of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The UC Office of the President released a statement on April 26 rejecting demands for divestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California has consistently opposed calls for boycotts against and divestment from Israel,” the statement said. “While the University affirms the right of our community members to express diverse viewpoints, a boycott of this sort impinges on the academic freedom of our students and faculty and the unfettered exchange of ideas on our campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Drake’s office refused multiple requests from CalMatters to answer questions about UC’s response to campus encampment protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC’s policing reforms came after the system faced several high-profile instances of excessive force in response to student advocacy on campuses. In 2011, the Occupy Wall Street \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/14/university-of-california-davis-paid-consultants-2011-protests\">protests\u003c/a> at UC Davis drew international attention when peaceful activists were pepper sprayed by the university’s police department. In the end, students won a $1 million settlement from UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, racial justice organizations and Black student unions at the UC’s nine undergraduate campuses led protests over the police custody murder of George Floyd and cast a light on other Black Americans killed by law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984779\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07.jpg\" alt=\"Two multicolored signs are hung outside an academic building on a campus with tents in front of the steps.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/042324_Berkeley-Gaza_MO_CM_07-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participate in the “Free Palestine Camp” demonstration outside of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their activism elevated negative experiences that some students of color reported with campus police. Students and employees demonstrated against racial profiling and a lack of police transparency. Some pushed for reforms; others called for abolishing police on university campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2021 safety plan instituted data dashboards, police advisory boards, mental health responders and professional accreditation for individual police departments. According to the UC’s director of community safety, Jody Stiger, all 10 campuses are expected to put the plan into action — with the final, delayed step being professional accreditation for campus law enforcement agencies — by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Cops Off Campus Coalition, composed of UC students and faculty, has criticized the safety plan for not acknowledging the structural biases of police forces and only increasing the scope of policing power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Riverside Black Studies professor and faculty coalition member Dylan Rodríguez described the Campus Safety Plan as largely reactionary. He said it is the UC’s attempt to quell a push for police abolition in the wake of the UC’s own crises and Floyd’s murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a response to a period of time in which there are deep questions, fundamental and abolitionist questions, about whether campuses should have fully armed, militarized and, sometimes, riot-gear equipped and SWAT team-trained police officers on their campuses,” Rodríguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stated aim of UC’s tiered response is to use several non-sworn responders in calls for emergencies that don’t require police. Relying on alternatives to police allows campuses to respond to students in crisis who require mental health support or intervention. The plan also establishes public safety officers to patrol residence halls on foot, escort students across campus at night, provide security for events and diffuse unsafe behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with CalMatters before this week’s violence, Stiger praised the increase of unarmed security guards and guidance against a police presence at protests. Police were not called to the scene during recent labor strikes nor for earlier protests on both sides of the Gaza war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In almost a majority of those on every campus, you don’t see any police. You might see maybe one or two that are just in the area, but you don’t see a major police presence,” Stiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Tuesday, the university delivered a formal letter to UCLA’s Divest Coalition declaring the encampment an unlawful assembly in violation of campus policy. Chancellor Block put out a statement that said the university removed demonstrators’ barricades blocking entrances to specific buildings and warned that students could face suspension or expulsion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus police chiefs at UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine refused several requests for comment from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Student Association — systemwide student representatives — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6XChA5SiDk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">published\u003c/a> a statement on April 29 in solidarity with students protesting for “Free Palestine” and condemning the law enforcement response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We demand that the UC, at a minimum, allow students to exercise their freedom of speech,” the statement read. “We denounce any use of police force to silence us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For the record: This article was updated to reflect that Chancellor Howard Gillman’s statement promised he would work with student protesters but did not make a promise against police intervention against the student protesters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza in an 8–3 vote, making it the largest city in the country to do so. San Francisco trails other cities in the Bay Area like Richmond and Oakland who’ve passed similar resolutions \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">meant to put pressure on Israel and the Biden administration.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7406415152\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. San Francisco is now the biggest city in the country to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a trend of local governments hoping to put pressure on Israel and on the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hilary Ronen: \u003c/strong>And if enough of us speak out, President Biden will have to listen. And there is no doubt in my mind that without the weapons, money and backing of the United States, the far right government in Israel will not be able to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, San Francisco’s ceasefire resolution and what impact it could have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So resolutions are different from, you know, laws that a city may pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>It’s essentially a way for a local government or, you know, a city metro area to basically take an official position on something. And they’re usually more symbolic and will take effect immediately. And the city passes resolutions pretty often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Typically they do focus on local issues, but ones like the cease fire resolution aren’t unheard of either. In 2022, for example, the city passed a resolution supporting protests against the Iranian government and the country’s leadership for human rights abuses. So there is some precedent to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When was this idea of a cease fire resolution first introduced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>To San Francisco supervisors Dean Preston and Hilary Ronen, who are both Jewish, officially introduced their resolution to the full Board of Supervisors in early December. So by that time, the violence that started after the October 7th attacks had already been going on for almost two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>By the time they introduced the resolution, though, there was still plenty of controversy over it. At the same time, there was a little bit of a precedent for local governments to take this type of action, because places like Oakland and Richmond had already been taking those steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. So an idea like this is sort of gaining traction over the last few months. And in order to pass a cease fire resolution in San Francisco, it sort of had to go through some meetings, including one on Monday, where supervisors got to hear from the public, what was your sense of how people were feeling about this resolution, based on the public comment that you heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I would say that the majority of speakers who came on Monday were in support of the resolution. First of all, it was a five hour long item, with most of that being public comment from people in the community. I mean, dozens of people were lined up. It was a completely full, chamber. You know, it was a little chaotic at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of fear. I’m calling for some humility that after they’ve been after these. Me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Excuse me. Stop for a second. Let the man speak. When everyone is speaking, let them speak. If you disagree, put your hand like this. If you agree, wave your hands. Do not taunt people when they’re speaking. Go ahead. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>We heard boos. We heard cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Free Palestine and thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>They often had to pound the gavel to bring things back to order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>And this is if you can also do this. I’m going to recess the meeting and there won’t be a vote. So just chill out and let everybody speak. And then we’re going to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Regardless of where folks are standing. There was clearly just this palpable energy and people feeling really fired up about this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lara Kiswani: \u003c/strong>My name is Lara Kiswani, I’m the executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. I’m also the daughter of Palestinian refugees. And this is my daughter, Salma. Since I was last here, I learned that I lost 40 family members in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were many people who showed up talking about family members that they have who have died in the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>My name is Manal Alcala, San Francisco resident, born and raised in district eight. More than 100 members of my family have been killed in Gaza, and the rest joined the 2 million made homeless by our tax money and our unlimited military aid. I’m here as a family medicine doctor who has taken an oath to do no harm. We are witnessing a.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There was also a large group of doctors who showed up. Part of this do no harm coalition that have really been, just calling for more humanitarian aid and medical support in Gaza as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Should we tell you about Doctor Hammam, a law, a nephrologist who worked at Al-Shifa who said, this is not the medicine I thought I would be practicing? When asked why he continued to work at a hospital under threat, he replied and if I go, who treats my patients? And if I go, who treats my patients? Two weeks later, he was killed in an airstrike on Al-Shifa. How many more? How many more children? How many more doctors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Where the rub really came down was over the language that was going to be used, and sort of how the call for a cease fire would be portrayed, quite literally, line by line and in the resolution itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>As long as we’re here, there are three things that must be included in this outrageous resolution. Number one, lay out the atrocities and detail that have been committed by Hamas on October 7th. In detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were some opponents that said that the resolution didn’t go far enough to call out Hamas for its role and the attack on October 7th that killed around 1200 Israelis. Several people said that they didn’t feel safe for expressing their criticisms, and they wanted to see more language added to support Jewish and Israeli communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>This resolution is bringing out, it’s legitimizing. It’s making it okay to call for the destruction of Israel and, threats to Jews. And I please ask you to focus on keeping us safe here, everyone, and not legitimizing hate speech. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know part of the work of things like this is definitely in the language, and I want to ask you about that. But before we get into that, how did the supervisors who introduced this resolution talk about why do this at all in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I think it’s a great question, first of all, because there were people who spoke up during public comment saying that San Francisco should be focused on our local issues. You know, we have a housing crisis. We have an overdose crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>The only consideration of a cease fire really is in the hands of Qatar, Egypt, Hamas and Israel. Not by this board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, why would we be focusing hours of our government’s attention, on something that’s maybe to some, not directly affecting our backyard. But in response to that, there were plenty of people who said, actually, this is affecting people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahsha Safaí: \u003c/strong>This is the most gut wrenching issue that I have dealt with on the Board of Supervisors. I have never received more calls, more emails, more people stopping me on the street, people grabbing me wherever I am to tell me how they feel about this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, you know, he pointed out that he was supporting the resolution because he hoped that it would simply allow members of the community who have lost loved ones or have direct experience with violence in the Middle East, to feel seen and heard by their local leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahsha Safaí: \u003c/strong>I can tell you, as the only person on this board that was born in that part of the world, and my life began with gunshots ringing outside every single night. This is deeply, deeply personal to me, and I have thought about nothing else more every single day since October the 7th. And so I know this resolution. Some people think it’s not going to do anything. It will allow some people in our communities to feel heard and seen for the very first time, because they feel as though they’re not seen in our city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, the U.S. government funds a lot of military aid in Israel, and that’s something that Hillary Ronen and other supervisors who supported this said that they hope it will send a message to the Biden administration to shift its approach and policies on the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>I believe we’re going to start something here today that’s going to take off across cities all over the United States. And if enough of us speak out, President Biden will have to listen. And there is no doubt in my mind that without the weapons, money and backing of the United States, the far right government in Israel will not be able to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, the debate over how to word the ceasefire resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, Sydney, I mean, I know other Bay area cities have considered resolutions like this and and part of what has made some of them very difficult to pass are these debates around language, and how do we sort of come to a consensus on that? What did those debates look like in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So San Francisco definitely had those debates as well. And this resolution was met with plenty of controversy. So in San Francisco, the language debates did mirror somewhat what we saw in places like Oakland and Berkeley. It was proposed by two supervisors who wanted to make a pretty broad call for a cease fire. That initial version did mention things like the October 7th attacks, but it did not explicitly condemn Hamas for its role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So there was some discussion about including language to label Hamas as a U.S. designated terrorist organization, and, also to include language calling on Hamas to surrender. This was still an issue that other supervisors were unsure of as well. There were multiple supervisors who wanted to see that condemnation of Hamas included in the language. And so on Tuesday, board President Aaron Peskin introduced a handful of changes to try to court skeptical supervisors and reach a unanimous vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>We have not. Succeeded. Arguably, we have failed to use this as an opportunity to bring our people on both sides of this divide together. I came to work and met with several of you, and heard different things, and as president wanted to see if we could bring at least the 11 of us together in a single, statement. And, to that end. I am offering amendments that turn this into a one page resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>That included explicitly condemning Hamas for its attacks on October 7th, but also condemning the Netanyahu administration for the ongoing invasion and airstrikes. It calls on the Biden administration to pursue a cease fire as well, and a handful of other considerations. But there were still some supervisors who said it wasn’t enough and they didn’t reach that consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Why is that? For at least the supervisors who still decided that they weren’t on board with this? What were some of the things they said at the meeting on Tuesday about why they weren’t supporting the resolution?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>The supervisors who voted no against this, and there were three, said that they still support some of the intention behind what the resolution was holding, but that they just felt it didn’t go hard enough to condemn some of the violence that Hamas has played a role in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Dorsey: \u003c/strong>What haunts me as much as anything I have encountered in more than 20 years of working in this building, is hearing the orchestrated denialism about what happened on October 7th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, Dorsey in particular, he was saying that it could risk sending a message that terrorism works. And that was something that resonated with, some of the other supervisors as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Dorsey: \u003c/strong>But I am troubled that the pain of some people is being denied. I can’t in good conscience support this resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So what is the language that they ultimately landed on and how did supervisors ultimately vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So the final version condemns both Hamas and Netanyahu for the tens and thousands of deaths that have taken place in Israel and Gaza. It calls for release of all Israeli hostages, demands, an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, and it condemns anti-Semitic, Anti-palestinian, Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks. The supervisors voted 8 to 3 for it to pass, with supervisors Dorsey, Stefani and Mandolin as the only no votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were so many cheers. The whole room just erupted. People were throwing scarves and papers in the air. It looked a little bit like a graduation. And yeah, there was just a lot of emotion. And there were, of course, people who were there who were upset to see this pass as well, feeling like they weren’t heard and represented by the language. But the vast majority of people that showed up on Tuesday were filling the halls of the chamber afterwards, cheering and supporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about whether resolutions like these actually have an impact at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, I think that the war in Gaza is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our lifetime. And there are people here in our community that have fled that violence, that have family that is still in Israel and Gaza. And I think that resolutions like this do kind of show where San Franciscos heart and priorities are at that. You know, we are aware that there are these issues that we need to focus on locally. But this is one of those, you know, this is affecting people here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>And I think that there is a lot to be said about taking a controversial stand like this. When you have a federal administration that is taking the opposite stance in some ways, and coming out and saying, you know, this is not where we’re going to stand, is is pretty tough to do. You know, I think we can only speculate, but, I think that is certainly the intention with resolutions like this is to send a message, take a stand and hope that it inspires some sort of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Sydney, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. That was Sydney Johnson, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Sydney was cut down and edited by me. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. We got some additional editing support from senior editor Alan Montecillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The rest of our podcast team here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern, and Holly Kernan, our chief content officer. Music courtesy of the Audio Network. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED Public Media in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks so much for listening. Talk to you next week.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. San Francisco is now the biggest city in the country to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a trend of local governments hoping to put pressure on Israel and on the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hilary Ronen: \u003c/strong>And if enough of us speak out, President Biden will have to listen. And there is no doubt in my mind that without the weapons, money and backing of the United States, the far right government in Israel will not be able to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, San Francisco’s ceasefire resolution and what impact it could have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So resolutions are different from, you know, laws that a city may pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>It’s essentially a way for a local government or, you know, a city metro area to basically take an official position on something. And they’re usually more symbolic and will take effect immediately. And the city passes resolutions pretty often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Typically they do focus on local issues, but ones like the cease fire resolution aren’t unheard of either. In 2022, for example, the city passed a resolution supporting protests against the Iranian government and the country’s leadership for human rights abuses. So there is some precedent to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When was this idea of a cease fire resolution first introduced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>To San Francisco supervisors Dean Preston and Hilary Ronen, who are both Jewish, officially introduced their resolution to the full Board of Supervisors in early December. So by that time, the violence that started after the October 7th attacks had already been going on for almost two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>By the time they introduced the resolution, though, there was still plenty of controversy over it. At the same time, there was a little bit of a precedent for local governments to take this type of action, because places like Oakland and Richmond had already been taking those steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. So an idea like this is sort of gaining traction over the last few months. And in order to pass a cease fire resolution in San Francisco, it sort of had to go through some meetings, including one on Monday, where supervisors got to hear from the public, what was your sense of how people were feeling about this resolution, based on the public comment that you heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I would say that the majority of speakers who came on Monday were in support of the resolution. First of all, it was a five hour long item, with most of that being public comment from people in the community. I mean, dozens of people were lined up. It was a completely full, chamber. You know, it was a little chaotic at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of fear. I’m calling for some humility that after they’ve been after these. Me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Excuse me. Stop for a second. Let the man speak. When everyone is speaking, let them speak. If you disagree, put your hand like this. If you agree, wave your hands. Do not taunt people when they’re speaking. Go ahead. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>We heard boos. We heard cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Free Palestine and thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>They often had to pound the gavel to bring things back to order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>And this is if you can also do this. I’m going to recess the meeting and there won’t be a vote. So just chill out and let everybody speak. And then we’re going to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Regardless of where folks are standing. There was clearly just this palpable energy and people feeling really fired up about this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lara Kiswani: \u003c/strong>My name is Lara Kiswani, I’m the executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. I’m also the daughter of Palestinian refugees. And this is my daughter, Salma. Since I was last here, I learned that I lost 40 family members in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were many people who showed up talking about family members that they have who have died in the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>My name is Manal Alcala, San Francisco resident, born and raised in district eight. More than 100 members of my family have been killed in Gaza, and the rest joined the 2 million made homeless by our tax money and our unlimited military aid. I’m here as a family medicine doctor who has taken an oath to do no harm. We are witnessing a.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There was also a large group of doctors who showed up. Part of this do no harm coalition that have really been, just calling for more humanitarian aid and medical support in Gaza as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Should we tell you about Doctor Hammam, a law, a nephrologist who worked at Al-Shifa who said, this is not the medicine I thought I would be practicing? When asked why he continued to work at a hospital under threat, he replied and if I go, who treats my patients? And if I go, who treats my patients? Two weeks later, he was killed in an airstrike on Al-Shifa. How many more? How many more children? How many more doctors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Where the rub really came down was over the language that was going to be used, and sort of how the call for a cease fire would be portrayed, quite literally, line by line and in the resolution itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>As long as we’re here, there are three things that must be included in this outrageous resolution. Number one, lay out the atrocities and detail that have been committed by Hamas on October 7th. In detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were some opponents that said that the resolution didn’t go far enough to call out Hamas for its role and the attack on October 7th that killed around 1200 Israelis. Several people said that they didn’t feel safe for expressing their criticisms, and they wanted to see more language added to support Jewish and Israeli communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>This resolution is bringing out, it’s legitimizing. It’s making it okay to call for the destruction of Israel and, threats to Jews. And I please ask you to focus on keeping us safe here, everyone, and not legitimizing hate speech. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know part of the work of things like this is definitely in the language, and I want to ask you about that. But before we get into that, how did the supervisors who introduced this resolution talk about why do this at all in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I think it’s a great question, first of all, because there were people who spoke up during public comment saying that San Francisco should be focused on our local issues. You know, we have a housing crisis. We have an overdose crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>The only consideration of a cease fire really is in the hands of Qatar, Egypt, Hamas and Israel. Not by this board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, why would we be focusing hours of our government’s attention, on something that’s maybe to some, not directly affecting our backyard. But in response to that, there were plenty of people who said, actually, this is affecting people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahsha Safaí: \u003c/strong>This is the most gut wrenching issue that I have dealt with on the Board of Supervisors. I have never received more calls, more emails, more people stopping me on the street, people grabbing me wherever I am to tell me how they feel about this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, you know, he pointed out that he was supporting the resolution because he hoped that it would simply allow members of the community who have lost loved ones or have direct experience with violence in the Middle East, to feel seen and heard by their local leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahsha Safaí: \u003c/strong>I can tell you, as the only person on this board that was born in that part of the world, and my life began with gunshots ringing outside every single night. This is deeply, deeply personal to me, and I have thought about nothing else more every single day since October the 7th. And so I know this resolution. Some people think it’s not going to do anything. It will allow some people in our communities to feel heard and seen for the very first time, because they feel as though they’re not seen in our city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, the U.S. government funds a lot of military aid in Israel, and that’s something that Hillary Ronen and other supervisors who supported this said that they hope it will send a message to the Biden administration to shift its approach and policies on the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>I believe we’re going to start something here today that’s going to take off across cities all over the United States. And if enough of us speak out, President Biden will have to listen. And there is no doubt in my mind that without the weapons, money and backing of the United States, the far right government in Israel will not be able to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, the debate over how to word the ceasefire resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, Sydney, I mean, I know other Bay area cities have considered resolutions like this and and part of what has made some of them very difficult to pass are these debates around language, and how do we sort of come to a consensus on that? What did those debates look like in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So San Francisco definitely had those debates as well. And this resolution was met with plenty of controversy. So in San Francisco, the language debates did mirror somewhat what we saw in places like Oakland and Berkeley. It was proposed by two supervisors who wanted to make a pretty broad call for a cease fire. That initial version did mention things like the October 7th attacks, but it did not explicitly condemn Hamas for its role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So there was some discussion about including language to label Hamas as a U.S. designated terrorist organization, and, also to include language calling on Hamas to surrender. This was still an issue that other supervisors were unsure of as well. There were multiple supervisors who wanted to see that condemnation of Hamas included in the language. And so on Tuesday, board President Aaron Peskin introduced a handful of changes to try to court skeptical supervisors and reach a unanimous vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>We have not. Succeeded. Arguably, we have failed to use this as an opportunity to bring our people on both sides of this divide together. I came to work and met with several of you, and heard different things, and as president wanted to see if we could bring at least the 11 of us together in a single, statement. And, to that end. I am offering amendments that turn this into a one page resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>That included explicitly condemning Hamas for its attacks on October 7th, but also condemning the Netanyahu administration for the ongoing invasion and airstrikes. It calls on the Biden administration to pursue a cease fire as well, and a handful of other considerations. But there were still some supervisors who said it wasn’t enough and they didn’t reach that consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Why is that? For at least the supervisors who still decided that they weren’t on board with this? What were some of the things they said at the meeting on Tuesday about why they weren’t supporting the resolution?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>The supervisors who voted no against this, and there were three, said that they still support some of the intention behind what the resolution was holding, but that they just felt it didn’t go hard enough to condemn some of the violence that Hamas has played a role in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Dorsey: \u003c/strong>What haunts me as much as anything I have encountered in more than 20 years of working in this building, is hearing the orchestrated denialism about what happened on October 7th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, Dorsey in particular, he was saying that it could risk sending a message that terrorism works. And that was something that resonated with, some of the other supervisors as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Dorsey: \u003c/strong>But I am troubled that the pain of some people is being denied. I can’t in good conscience support this resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So what is the language that they ultimately landed on and how did supervisors ultimately vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So the final version condemns both Hamas and Netanyahu for the tens and thousands of deaths that have taken place in Israel and Gaza. It calls for release of all Israeli hostages, demands, an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, and it condemns anti-Semitic, Anti-palestinian, Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks. The supervisors voted 8 to 3 for it to pass, with supervisors Dorsey, Stefani and Mandolin as the only no votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were so many cheers. The whole room just erupted. People were throwing scarves and papers in the air. It looked a little bit like a graduation. And yeah, there was just a lot of emotion. And there were, of course, people who were there who were upset to see this pass as well, feeling like they weren’t heard and represented by the language. But the vast majority of people that showed up on Tuesday were filling the halls of the chamber afterwards, cheering and supporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about whether resolutions like these actually have an impact at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, I think that the war in Gaza is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our lifetime. And there are people here in our community that have fled that violence, that have family that is still in Israel and Gaza. And I think that resolutions like this do kind of show where San Franciscos heart and priorities are at that. You know, we are aware that there are these issues that we need to focus on locally. But this is one of those, you know, this is affecting people here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>And I think that there is a lot to be said about taking a controversial stand like this. When you have a federal administration that is taking the opposite stance in some ways, and coming out and saying, you know, this is not where we’re going to stand, is is pretty tough to do. You know, I think we can only speculate, but, I think that is certainly the intention with resolutions like this is to send a message, take a stand and hope that it inspires some sort of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Sydney, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. That was Sydney Johnson, a reporter for KQED. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of protesters calling for a cease-fire in the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas\u003c/a> war interrupted the first day of California’s legislative session on Wednesday, forcing the state Assembly to adjourn moments after convening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers had just listened to the opening prayer and said the Pledge of Allegiance when protesters wearing matching black t-shirts stood from their seats and started singing “Cease-fire now” and “Let Gaza live.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Los Angeles)\"]‘The level of fear and anxiety and tension is unlike anything I have ever seen in my lifetime.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people unfurled banners from the chamber’s gallery that read: “Jews say never again for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Jim Wood, a Democratic assemblymember from Healdsburg who was presiding over the session, tried to continue the session despite the singing. Eventually, he called for a recess and adjourned a few minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of the lawmakers left the floor. Protesters cheered when officials turned off the lights in the chamber, holding up the flashlights on their phones as they continued to sing, which included a lengthy call-and-response chant from the gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are Jews and Californians, Assembly members, we call on you to join us in demanding a cease-fire now,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11971602\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand on a balcony waving their phones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1536x1059.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-2048x1412.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1920x1324.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the lights had been turned off, protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza use the lights from cell phones to demonstrate during the first day of the California legislative session in Sacramento on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said he supports First Amendment rights but added, “The only real impact from today’s protest is that the Legislature was prevented from doing the people’s work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of groups come to the Capitol every year to express their diverse viewpoints, but their free-speech actions do not impede the Legislature’s work,” he said. “While this is a tense and difficult moment for communities in California and across the world, our job in the Legislature is to stay focused on the issues we can affect here in our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s protest was organized by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-college-protests-c94bb0cd246bcc692de86b76b9b2a8cf\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, IfNotNow and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Binya Kóatz, a Jewish teacher and artist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, said Americans have “not only the right but the responsibility to stop business as usual as long as our country is giving a blank check to Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"israel, gaza\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Kóatz said the groups chose to protest at the California Legislature because, while those lawmakers do not control federal money sent to Israel, “we know that state Legislatures have the ear of their national counterparts in California and that getting this body to call for a cease-fire now can put California at the forefront of the national movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time protesters have called for a cease-fire disrupted events in California’s capital. 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"content": "\u003cp>“I really didn’t want to come here today,” Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, 33, said into his microphone before dozens of people at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center (SFJCC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks before, Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking over 200 hostages. In response, Israel began bombing Gaza, and the death toll was already mounting. Tensions in that SFJCC room were palpable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was held in conjunction with \u003ca href=\"https://parentscirclefriends.org/mission/\">American Friends of the Parent Circle\u003c/a>, a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization of over 600 families, all of whom have lost an immediate family member to the ongoing conflict. This forum was meant to be an apolitical space for shared grief and hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alkhatib was feeling more grief than hope at that moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib\"]‘Human life is one of the most valuable things in this universe. Whether it be an Israeli or a Palestinian life, we can build allyship even around the loss of life.’[/pullquote]Alkhatib’s uncle in Gaza had just died in the Israel-Hamas War. His cousin’s 13-year-old daughter had died earlier in the week after an Israeli airstrike hit the four-story building where Alkhatib grew up. Most of his family members survived by climbing out from under the rubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite his personal pain, Alkhatib asked the gathered audience to set politics aside and make an effort to see the similarities between Israelis and Palestinians instead of just their differences. He mourned the Israeli victims of Hamas’ attack and the Gazan victims of Israel’s retaliation. He reprimanded people who tore down posters of the Israeli hostages and assertively condemned Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pro-humanity,” he said to roaring applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growing Up in Gaza\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib spent the first years of his life living in Saudi Arabia, where his Palestinian-born parents were working in the medical field. He would visit family in Gaza several times a year but didn’t move there until he was 10. His family moved back just three months before \u003ca href=\"https://legacy.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/history/timeline.html\">the Second Intifada\u003c/a>, a particularly violent time between Israel and the Palestinian territories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alkhatib said there were still pockets of serenity under occupation. He recalled trips to the sea, flying kites with neighborhood kids, and wedding receptions that would flow through the night and into the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A hand holds a photo of a family sitting on a sofa.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib holds a photo of his brother Mohammed, sister-in-law Aya, and their four children, Fouad, Tala, Ahmed, and Maria, in his host mother’s home in Pacifica, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Alkhatib is from Gaza, where his brother and his family are still living and suffering under the current bombardment. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was beauty in the midst of misery, there was happiness in the midst of violence and war,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he had trouble getting used to the hum of war tanks and the hassle of checkpoints. Even though he was supposed to act like the occupation didn’t bother him, he couldn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I struggled with the violence and the fear as a child,” he said. “There was this unspoken social pressure to suppress any sense of fear and overreaction to the violence and to tough it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11963865,news_11969094,news_11968400\" label=\"Related Stories\"]As a child, Alkhatib was startled by loud noises — he said the other children would laugh at him when he would jump or hide. He said he always felt like an old man trapped in a child’s body, more concerned with the news than playing video games. Though he came from an apolitical family, Alkhatib dreamt of being a politician or a diplomat. As a preteen, he would analyze the political and military situation with his classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would endearingly mock me as a junior Middle East analyst,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib loved to eavesdrop on grown-up conversations. He remembered his Uncle Riyad sharing stories about working with a group of day laborers in South Israel in the 1990s — a time when Alkhatib said it was more common for Israelis and Palestinians to work side by side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Palestinian day laborers] formed these super tight bonds with Israeli communities,” Alkhatib said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those stories of the close, trusting relationships that Palestinians and Israelis once had lingered in Alkhatib’s mind. Even as a kid, he hated the Israeli occupation but believed using suicide bombings to oppose it — a tactic that had become common during the Second Intifada — was wrong, a sometimes unpopular opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib would debate this with his classmates and was surprised when others agreed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Several students began speaking up and saying, ‘Actually, he’s right. I think it’s wrong. And our religion, our culture, our morality should prevent us from targeting civilians and anyone who’s not carrying a weapon.’ And it was then that I realized the power of persuasion and how people want to say what they believe, but they’re timid,” Alkhatib said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a life lesson that stuck with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Alkhatib said he was walking home from the seventh grade with three friends when an Israeli airstrike landed nearby, leveling a police station. He said his friends had been a little behind him, and when Alkhatib ran back to look for them, there was a second airstrike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s where I discovered my dead friends,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blast, which caused permanent hearing damage to his left ear and the memory of those dead bodies, was a turning point for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the seed that planted my serious desire to get out of the Gaza Strip,” he said. “I knew that I had no future in Gaza. I knew that I wanted something different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Youth exchange to the US\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When he was 15, Alkhatib finally got that chance he’d hoped for. He was accepted to the highly coveted \u003ca href=\"https://www.yesprograms.org/\">Youth Exchange and Study Program\u003c/a>, an initiative by the U.S. State Department to repair relationships with majority Muslim countries after 9/11. The program brought high school students to study abroad in the United States for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968938\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a bald head and wearing glasses looks at the camera while standing beside a person with long hair.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (left) and his host mother, Delia McGrath (right), stand for a portrait at McGrath’s home in Pacifica on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Alkhatib was stranded from Gaza in the United States as a 15-year-old in 2005 and still has family in Gaza today. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2005, four years after the explosion that killed his friends, Alkhatib moved to Pacifica, a small beach town just south of San Francisco. His host mom was Delia McGrath, a woman in her 60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would take me to school,” Alkhatib said. “She would make me breakfast. She helped me get on my feet. I call her my U.S. mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrath was a retired social worker and a Buddhist. During Alkhatib’s exchange program, she taught him about the power of meditation and forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, as a child coming from a war zone like Gaza, it was a very unusual concept,” Alkhatib said. “This idea that somehow you’re going to be angry and you’re going to express it, but you’re going to work methodically through a set of approaches and beliefs to turn that anger around and to work through it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meditating with McGrath, Alkhatib said, helped him process his trauma and gave him space to transform his pain into something more positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that year, they also began attending the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smc-connect.org/locations/jewish-palestinian-living-room-dialogue\">Living Room Dialogue\u003c/a>, a Jewish Palestinian group based in San Mateo. It was the first time Alkhatib had ever had face-to-face conversations with Jews or Israelis — that type of interaction was socially criminalized back in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I quickly realized that Israelis, in a different way, can also experience pain, suffering, hardships, the impact of horror and terrorism and violence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That intuition Alkhatib had as a child in Gaza crystallized; Palestinians and Israelis had more in common than he’d thought. He came to believe in the possibility of building mutual empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, the whole idea of this group wasn’t that we sing Kumbaya together and we all believe the same thing,” Alkhatib said. “But if we could, at minimum, respect each other’s humanity, respect each other’s unique individuality, and respect our specific experiences that led us to believe what we believe, we can still disagree politically while being friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib was going through a metamorphosis. And back home, Gaza was also changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Applying for political asylum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2005, \u003ca href=\"https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israels%20Disengagement%20Plan-%202005.aspx\">Israel unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza Strip\u003c/a>, removing all its troops and settlers. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1198908227\">Hamas continued to rise in power over the next year\u003c/a>, the group’s leaders intensified calls for armed resistance and rejected a two-state solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t sit right with Alkhatib. He was scared from afar of what it meant for Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a period of increased radicalization in the Gaza Strip,” Alkhatib remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/26/israel1\">Hamas won Gaza’s first legislative election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that it would be a disaster for our people and certainly for Gaza,” Alkhatib said. “And that it sealed my fate in terms of never being able to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a bald head and wearing glasses is seen reflected in a mirror hanging from a tree in a yard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is seen in a peace sign-shaped mirror at his host mother’s home in Pacifica, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Alkhatib is from Gaza and has called for a “pro-humanity” approach to the current conflict. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib said Hamas hated the cultural exchange program he participated in through the U.S. State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought that we were being trained as spies and we were being brainwashed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, with McGrath’s help, Alkhatib applied for political asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 24 years old, Alkhatib was naturalized as a U.S. citizen and settled into watching developments in the Middle East from afar. He had a diverse friend group and continued to deepen his relationship with Jews and Israelis. But he often found himself out of step with people he thought he would have most in common with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a hard time being around other Arab American and Palestinian American and Muslim American communities and individuals for a variety of reasons,” Alkhatib explained. “Like, people wanting to out-Palestinian me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Alkhatib, many activists had never lived in Gaza. Though they cared about the politics, they had lived their whole lives in the diaspora — looking from the outside into the conflict. Alkhatib was an insider with lived experience, but he felt they didn’t care what he had to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Or they felt that I went too far in promoting peace and coexistence at the expense of describing what was really happening on the ground and that I was merely being tokenized and letting people take advantage of me,” Alkhatib said. “Maybe some of those criticisms were accurate, but at the end of the day, I never wanted my actions to be guided by others’ projections onto me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Alkhatib forged his own type of advocacy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2017-04-30/ty-article/.premium/an-israeli-airstrike-on-gaza-nearly-killed-me-but-i-recognize-both-sides-trauma/0000017f-eff2-d8a1-a5ff-fffa80520000\">publishing think pieces in Jewish and Israeli publications\u003c/a> to share his traumatic childhood in Gaza and appealing for coexistence. He tried to establish a humanitarian airport in the Gaza Strip. Alkhatib explained that he is constantly trying to build bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alkhatib said that being in the middle, this no man’s land, bursting in shades of gray, can be a lonely place. Especially now, since the latest Israel-Hamas War started on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maintaining the message despite great personal loss\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The newest resurgence of violence between Israel and Hamas has brought with it deep divides in communities around the country. Friends aren’t speaking to one another, families have difficulty discussing the news at holiday gatherings. Alkhatib doesn’t believe that “picking a side” is helpful right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, pro-Israel or anti-Palestinian; anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian; I’m not pro-this, and I’m not anti-that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He condemns hardliners on the Israeli right and wants a future for Gaza without Hamas. He is calling for a cease-fire and demanding all the Israeli hostages be released. Alkhatib believes these stances can coexist — Palestinian and Jewish pain don’t have to compete, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human life is one of the most valuable things in this universe,” Alkhatib said. “Whether it be an Israeli or a Palestinian life, we can build allyship even around the loss of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib is worried about his family in Gaza. Some of them have died, and others are living on the street with nowhere to return home. He believes more of his family members were killed in an airstrike earlier this week in Southern Gaza. But despite it all, Alkhatib’s commitment to peace is unwavering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s helpful to further inflame tensions because I need to keep nurturing this side of me that is compassionate and this commitment to love and to not hate,” Alkhatib said. “And at the same time, I understand why people are upset. I really do. And if somebody’s gonna be upset, it is me. I am frustrated. I am angry. I am worried. I am anxious, but I’m not hateful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/israel-hamas-war\">Find more coverage of the Israel-Hamas war on KQED\u003c/a> and NPR, including perspectives from Jewish and Israeli people.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite his personal pain, Alkhatib asked the gathered audience to set politics aside and make an effort to see the similarities between Israelis and Palestinians instead of just their differences. He mourned the Israeli victims of Hamas’ attack and the Gazan victims of Israel’s retaliation. He reprimanded people who tore down posters of the Israeli hostages and assertively condemned Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pro-humanity,” he said to roaring applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growing Up in Gaza\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib spent the first years of his life living in Saudi Arabia, where his Palestinian-born parents were working in the medical field. He would visit family in Gaza several times a year but didn’t move there until he was 10. His family moved back just three months before \u003ca href=\"https://legacy.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/history/timeline.html\">the Second Intifada\u003c/a>, a particularly violent time between Israel and the Palestinian territories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alkhatib said there were still pockets of serenity under occupation. He recalled trips to the sea, flying kites with neighborhood kids, and wedding receptions that would flow through the night and into the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A hand holds a photo of a family sitting on a sofa.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-017-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib holds a photo of his brother Mohammed, sister-in-law Aya, and their four children, Fouad, Tala, Ahmed, and Maria, in his host mother’s home in Pacifica, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Alkhatib is from Gaza, where his brother and his family are still living and suffering under the current bombardment. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was beauty in the midst of misery, there was happiness in the midst of violence and war,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he had trouble getting used to the hum of war tanks and the hassle of checkpoints. Even though he was supposed to act like the occupation didn’t bother him, he couldn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I struggled with the violence and the fear as a child,” he said. “There was this unspoken social pressure to suppress any sense of fear and overreaction to the violence and to tough it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As a child, Alkhatib was startled by loud noises — he said the other children would laugh at him when he would jump or hide. He said he always felt like an old man trapped in a child’s body, more concerned with the news than playing video games. Though he came from an apolitical family, Alkhatib dreamt of being a politician or a diplomat. As a preteen, he would analyze the political and military situation with his classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would endearingly mock me as a junior Middle East analyst,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib loved to eavesdrop on grown-up conversations. He remembered his Uncle Riyad sharing stories about working with a group of day laborers in South Israel in the 1990s — a time when Alkhatib said it was more common for Israelis and Palestinians to work side by side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Palestinian day laborers] formed these super tight bonds with Israeli communities,” Alkhatib said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those stories of the close, trusting relationships that Palestinians and Israelis once had lingered in Alkhatib’s mind. Even as a kid, he hated the Israeli occupation but believed using suicide bombings to oppose it — a tactic that had become common during the Second Intifada — was wrong, a sometimes unpopular opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib would debate this with his classmates and was surprised when others agreed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Several students began speaking up and saying, ‘Actually, he’s right. I think it’s wrong. And our religion, our culture, our morality should prevent us from targeting civilians and anyone who’s not carrying a weapon.’ And it was then that I realized the power of persuasion and how people want to say what they believe, but they’re timid,” Alkhatib said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a life lesson that stuck with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Alkhatib said he was walking home from the seventh grade with three friends when an Israeli airstrike landed nearby, leveling a police station. He said his friends had been a little behind him, and when Alkhatib ran back to look for them, there was a second airstrike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s where I discovered my dead friends,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blast, which caused permanent hearing damage to his left ear and the memory of those dead bodies, was a turning point for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the seed that planted my serious desire to get out of the Gaza Strip,” he said. “I knew that I had no future in Gaza. I knew that I wanted something different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Youth exchange to the US\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When he was 15, Alkhatib finally got that chance he’d hoped for. He was accepted to the highly coveted \u003ca href=\"https://www.yesprograms.org/\">Youth Exchange and Study Program\u003c/a>, an initiative by the U.S. State Department to repair relationships with majority Muslim countries after 9/11. The program brought high school students to study abroad in the United States for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968938\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a bald head and wearing glasses looks at the camera while standing beside a person with long hair.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-001-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (left) and his host mother, Delia McGrath (right), stand for a portrait at McGrath’s home in Pacifica on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Alkhatib was stranded from Gaza in the United States as a 15-year-old in 2005 and still has family in Gaza today. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2005, four years after the explosion that killed his friends, Alkhatib moved to Pacifica, a small beach town just south of San Francisco. His host mom was Delia McGrath, a woman in her 60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would take me to school,” Alkhatib said. “She would make me breakfast. She helped me get on my feet. I call her my U.S. mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrath was a retired social worker and a Buddhist. During Alkhatib’s exchange program, she taught him about the power of meditation and forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, as a child coming from a war zone like Gaza, it was a very unusual concept,” Alkhatib said. “This idea that somehow you’re going to be angry and you’re going to express it, but you’re going to work methodically through a set of approaches and beliefs to turn that anger around and to work through it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meditating with McGrath, Alkhatib said, helped him process his trauma and gave him space to transform his pain into something more positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that year, they also began attending the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smc-connect.org/locations/jewish-palestinian-living-room-dialogue\">Living Room Dialogue\u003c/a>, a Jewish Palestinian group based in San Mateo. It was the first time Alkhatib had ever had face-to-face conversations with Jews or Israelis — that type of interaction was socially criminalized back in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I quickly realized that Israelis, in a different way, can also experience pain, suffering, hardships, the impact of horror and terrorism and violence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That intuition Alkhatib had as a child in Gaza crystallized; Palestinians and Israelis had more in common than he’d thought. He came to believe in the possibility of building mutual empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, the whole idea of this group wasn’t that we sing Kumbaya together and we all believe the same thing,” Alkhatib said. “But if we could, at minimum, respect each other’s humanity, respect each other’s unique individuality, and respect our specific experiences that led us to believe what we believe, we can still disagree politically while being friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib was going through a metamorphosis. And back home, Gaza was also changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Applying for political asylum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2005, \u003ca href=\"https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israels%20Disengagement%20Plan-%202005.aspx\">Israel unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza Strip\u003c/a>, removing all its troops and settlers. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1198908227\">Hamas continued to rise in power over the next year\u003c/a>, the group’s leaders intensified calls for armed resistance and rejected a two-state solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t sit right with Alkhatib. He was scared from afar of what it meant for Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a period of increased radicalization in the Gaza Strip,” Alkhatib remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/26/israel1\">Hamas won Gaza’s first legislative election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that it would be a disaster for our people and certainly for Gaza,” Alkhatib said. “And that it sealed my fate in terms of never being able to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a bald head and wearing glasses is seen reflected in a mirror hanging from a tree in a yard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231201-Ahmed-Gaza-011-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is seen in a peace sign-shaped mirror at his host mother’s home in Pacifica, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Alkhatib is from Gaza and has called for a “pro-humanity” approach to the current conflict. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib said Hamas hated the cultural exchange program he participated in through the U.S. State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought that we were being trained as spies and we were being brainwashed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, with McGrath’s help, Alkhatib applied for political asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 24 years old, Alkhatib was naturalized as a U.S. citizen and settled into watching developments in the Middle East from afar. He had a diverse friend group and continued to deepen his relationship with Jews and Israelis. But he often found himself out of step with people he thought he would have most in common with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a hard time being around other Arab American and Palestinian American and Muslim American communities and individuals for a variety of reasons,” Alkhatib explained. “Like, people wanting to out-Palestinian me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Alkhatib, many activists had never lived in Gaza. Though they cared about the politics, they had lived their whole lives in the diaspora — looking from the outside into the conflict. Alkhatib was an insider with lived experience, but he felt they didn’t care what he had to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Or they felt that I went too far in promoting peace and coexistence at the expense of describing what was really happening on the ground and that I was merely being tokenized and letting people take advantage of me,” Alkhatib said. “Maybe some of those criticisms were accurate, but at the end of the day, I never wanted my actions to be guided by others’ projections onto me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Alkhatib forged his own type of advocacy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2017-04-30/ty-article/.premium/an-israeli-airstrike-on-gaza-nearly-killed-me-but-i-recognize-both-sides-trauma/0000017f-eff2-d8a1-a5ff-fffa80520000\">publishing think pieces in Jewish and Israeli publications\u003c/a> to share his traumatic childhood in Gaza and appealing for coexistence. He tried to establish a humanitarian airport in the Gaza Strip. Alkhatib explained that he is constantly trying to build bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alkhatib said that being in the middle, this no man’s land, bursting in shades of gray, can be a lonely place. Especially now, since the latest Israel-Hamas War started on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maintaining the message despite great personal loss\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The newest resurgence of violence between Israel and Hamas has brought with it deep divides in communities around the country. Friends aren’t speaking to one another, families have difficulty discussing the news at holiday gatherings. Alkhatib doesn’t believe that “picking a side” is helpful right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, pro-Israel or anti-Palestinian; anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian; I’m not pro-this, and I’m not anti-that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He condemns hardliners on the Israeli right and wants a future for Gaza without Hamas. He is calling for a cease-fire and demanding all the Israeli hostages be released. Alkhatib believes these stances can coexist — Palestinian and Jewish pain don’t have to compete, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human life is one of the most valuable things in this universe,” Alkhatib said. “Whether it be an Israeli or a Palestinian life, we can build allyship even around the loss of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alkhatib is worried about his family in Gaza. Some of them have died, and others are living on the street with nowhere to return home. He believes more of his family members were killed in an airstrike earlier this week in Southern Gaza. But despite it all, Alkhatib’s commitment to peace is unwavering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s helpful to further inflame tensions because I need to keep nurturing this side of me that is compassionate and this commitment to love and to not hate,” Alkhatib said. “And at the same time, I understand why people are upset. I really do. And if somebody’s gonna be upset, it is me. I am frustrated. I am angry. I am worried. I am anxious, but I’m not hateful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza rallied outside the Powell Street BART station in downtown San Francisco on Tuesday evening, as dozens of world leaders and CEOs, including President Joe Biden, gather in the city for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s demonstrations, organized by a coalition that includes the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Bay Area chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967074/as-apec-kicks-off-protestors-are-descending-on-san-francisco-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">follow a steady drumbeat of actions\u003c/a> across the Bay Area in recent weeks urging an end to U.S. military aid to Israel, and an end to Israel’s attacks on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“APEC is a really big deal. Just the fact that tons of heads of state from all over the world are coming here today to meet with Biden and negotiate policies that we know … play a role in expansion of neoliberal policies that affect theft of land and resources all over the world,” Suzanne Ali, a San Francisco-based organizer with Palestinian Youth Movement, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters at the event condemned Biden’s ongoing support for Israel, which launched a ground invasion of Gaza on Oct. 27 after weeks of heavy air strikes. Israel’s attacks followed the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion from Gaza into Southern Israel, when militants killed at least 1,200 people and took more than 230 hostages, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry. More than 11,100 civilians in Gaza have been killed since Oct. 7 by Israeli attacks, largely airstrikes, according to Gaza’s health ministry. As of last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/middleeast/palestinian-israeli-deaths-gaza-dg/index.html\">nearly half of them were children\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators at Tuesday’s rally demanded an end to the invasion and to the rising death toll of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. An energetic crowd of hundreds of protesters quickly grew to approximately 3,000, many carrying signs and waving Palestinian flags outside the Powell Street BART station just after 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY.jpg\" alt=\"Blue and yellow protest signs are held above a group of people while a man waves a Palestinian flag on scaffolding above them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally on Market Street during a protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Nov. 14, 2023, during arrivals by world leaders to the APEC summit. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid chants of “cease-fire now” and “money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation,” speakers took to megaphones to decry the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars for what they called “Israeli genocide” and directed many remarks directly at Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the millions of us that have been in the streets for Gaza and for Palestine, Joe Biden and his administration continue to ignore the people,” Sanika Mahajan, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told the crowd.”This is our chance because Joe Biden is here in San Francisco. This is our chance to tell Joe Biden where the people stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some protesters wanted Joe Biden and other world leaders attending APEC to heed their message about the importance of prioritizing domestic issues such as health care and education as they demonstrated on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Carlos Riquelme, a resident of Hayward, and Delia Calderon of San Francisco, both Peruvians, said Peruvian President Dina Boluarte – whose administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/peru-youth-indigenous-protests-dina-boluarte/\">has been blamed for the deaths of dozens of pro-Democracy demonstrators over the last year\u003c/a> – needed to hear such a message as well. Boluarte is also in San Francisco for APEC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Boluarte] has to listen… She and everyone has to hear that what the world needs is peace, money for education and not the killing of other brothers and sisters [in the global south],” Calderon told KQED in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here for all of humanity, for all the people who have been murdered, segregated, marginalized, disabled, exposed to poverty, condemned to poverty… We are here because we want that to change. This generation is struggling more than ever and we want this to stop now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY.jpg\" alt=\"A group of about 100 people walk on a city street while holding protest signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march on Market Street during a protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Nov. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around 6 p.m., the crowd began marching east along Market Street, snarling traffic and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFMTA_Muni/status/1724608696167358574?s=20\">backing up Muni buses\u003c/a>, to demonstrate outside a campaign fundraiser event scheduled to be attended by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the Palestinian Youth Movement, other groups organized and supported Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco, which brought together activists from across the Bay Area, including organizers from the ANSWER Coalition, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, San Francisco State University General Union of Palestine Students, and Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966423/thousands-of-protestors-rally-in-san-francisco-calling-for-immediate-cease-fire-in-gaza\">protests calling for a cease-fire\u003c/a> have been happening across the Bay Area in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/11/14/jewish-protest-oakland-ceasefire-gaza/\">hundreds of Jewish protesters and supporters occupied the Oakland Federal Building,\u003c/a> also demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. That event, which culminated in numerous arrests, has been recognized as one of the largest Jewish civil disobedience actions in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='israel-hamas-war']Organizers of Tuesday’s demonstration said they are working in solidarity with other groups protesting this week’s global leaders summit in San Francisco. That includes groups like No to APEC, a broad coalition of human rights advocates, climate activists and anti-capitalist organizations. A protest that No to APEC organized earlier this week aimed to call out CEOs, heads of state and other dignitaries attending the event for workers’ rights violations, climate degradation and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsors of APEC include major U.S. consumer corporations like Amazon, as well as weapons manufacturers like Boeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world have been protesting relentlessly in the streets in support of Palestine,” said Party for Socialism and Liberation organizer Saul Kanowitz in a press statement announcing Tuesday’s San Francisco protest. “While the majority of Americans support a cease-fire, the Biden administration and Congress have ignored our demands and continue to enable Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is highlighted by a light at night wearing a Palestine scarf and hijab.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lnmia Zahi participates in Tuesday evening’s protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of U.S. Democrats (46%) disapprove of how President Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-apnorc-poll-biden-democrats-42b195c5a577a40ff981d26afbff9997\">according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research\u003c/a>. 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An energetic crowd of hundreds of protesters quickly grew to approximately 3,000, many carrying signs and waving Palestinian flags outside the Powell Street BART station just after 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY.jpg\" alt=\"Blue and yellow protest signs are held above a group of people while a man waves a Palestinian flag on scaffolding above them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-02-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally on Market Street during a protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Nov. 14, 2023, during arrivals by world leaders to the APEC summit. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid chants of “cease-fire now” and “money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation,” speakers took to megaphones to decry the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars for what they called “Israeli genocide” and directed many remarks directly at Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the millions of us that have been in the streets for Gaza and for Palestine, Joe Biden and his administration continue to ignore the people,” Sanika Mahajan, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told the crowd.”This is our chance because Joe Biden is here in San Francisco. This is our chance to tell Joe Biden where the people stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some protesters wanted Joe Biden and other world leaders attending APEC to heed their message about the importance of prioritizing domestic issues such as health care and education as they demonstrated on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Carlos Riquelme, a resident of Hayward, and Delia Calderon of San Francisco, both Peruvians, said Peruvian President Dina Boluarte – whose administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/peru-youth-indigenous-protests-dina-boluarte/\">has been blamed for the deaths of dozens of pro-Democracy demonstrators over the last year\u003c/a> – needed to hear such a message as well. Boluarte is also in San Francisco for APEC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Boluarte] has to listen… She and everyone has to hear that what the world needs is peace, money for education and not the killing of other brothers and sisters [in the global south],” Calderon told KQED in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here for all of humanity, for all the people who have been murdered, segregated, marginalized, disabled, exposed to poverty, condemned to poverty… We are here because we want that to change. This generation is struggling more than ever and we want this to stop now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY.jpg\" alt=\"A group of about 100 people walk on a city street while holding protest signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-06-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march on Market Street during a protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Nov. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around 6 p.m., the crowd began marching east along Market Street, snarling traffic and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFMTA_Muni/status/1724608696167358574?s=20\">backing up Muni buses\u003c/a>, to demonstrate outside a campaign fundraiser event scheduled to be attended by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the Palestinian Youth Movement, other groups organized and supported Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco, which brought together activists from across the Bay Area, including organizers from the ANSWER Coalition, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, San Francisco State University General Union of Palestine Students, and Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966423/thousands-of-protestors-rally-in-san-francisco-calling-for-immediate-cease-fire-in-gaza\">protests calling for a cease-fire\u003c/a> have been happening across the Bay Area in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/11/14/jewish-protest-oakland-ceasefire-gaza/\">hundreds of Jewish protesters and supporters occupied the Oakland Federal Building,\u003c/a> also demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Organizers of Tuesday’s demonstration said they are working in solidarity with other groups protesting this week’s global leaders summit in San Francisco. That includes groups like No to APEC, a broad coalition of human rights advocates, climate activists and anti-capitalist organizations. A protest that No to APEC organized earlier this week aimed to call out CEOs, heads of state and other dignitaries attending the event for workers’ rights violations, climate degradation and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsors of APEC include major U.S. consumer corporations like Amazon, as well as weapons manufacturers like Boeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world have been protesting relentlessly in the streets in support of Palestine,” said Party for Socialism and Liberation organizer Saul Kanowitz in a press statement announcing Tuesday’s San Francisco protest. “While the majority of Americans support a cease-fire, the Biden administration and Congress have ignored our demands and continue to enable Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is highlighted by a light at night wearing a Palestine scarf and hijab.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231114-APECProtest-07-JY-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lnmia Zahi participates in Tuesday evening’s protest calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of U.S. Democrats (46%) disapprove of how President Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-apnorc-poll-biden-democrats-42b195c5a577a40ff981d26afbff9997\">according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research\u003c/a>. A similar number of Democrats (44%) said the U.S. is too supportive of Israel, and not supportive enough of Palestinians, according to the poll. A slightly higher number of Democrats (45%) said U.S. support of Israel is “about right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, it’s a critical moment. Over 66% of voters support the demand for a cease-fire,” said Ali of the Palestinian Youth Movement, referring to findings from a recent poll from Data for Progress. “This being a world event is really important for us to have this opportunity to make our demands clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of Democrat and Republican lawmakers in Washington have continued to voice their support for Israel. But a small group of congressional lawmakers, including East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee, has \u003ca href=\"https://jayapal.house.gov/2023/10/17/jayapal-casar-lee-mcgovern-castro-escobar-garcia-release-statement-calling-for-ceasefire/\">supported calls for a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "The Bay Area's Only Palestinian-American Elected Official Speaks Out On the War in Gaza",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foster City is home to one of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934383/palestine-cultural-day-foster-city\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> largest annual gatherings of Palestinians \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in the Bay Area. It’s also where Councilmember Sam Hindi holds office as one of the few elected officials of Palestinian heritage in California. Today, we talk with Hindi about how the war in Gaza has affected him — as an elected official, as a father, and as a Palestinian-American.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC6577254913&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. For 36 years, one of the largest Palestinian celebrations here in the Bay Area had been held in San Francisco’s Hall of Flowers. People from all over the region flocked to this yearly celebration, and eventually the hall’s capacity of 3000 people just couldn’t fit the amount of people showing up to this celebration every year. So, in 2018, the Palestine Day Cultural Festival was moved to Foster City, a community of about 33,000 people in San Mateo County. That same year, a man by the name of Sam Hindi had been elected mayor of Foster City, becoming only the second Palestinian American to hold elected office in the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>My name is Ericka, I’m here to interview Sam Hindi:. And we’re in the lobby. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Ericka? Hi, Ericka. A pleasure to meet you. Pleasure. Thank you for coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hi. Maria. Nice to meet you\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Nice to meet you, Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Maria, Alan, and I recently went to Foster City to talk with Sam Hindi. We took an elevator up to his office on the second floor of City Hall, which revealed a perfect view of the San Mateo Bridge in the distance. The bridge looks amazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That’s really cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Yeah, yeah. I mean, this whole area here. Yeah. This used to be light industrial, And this year we have added so much needed housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Usually, Councilmember Hindi talks about stuff you’d expect from a local politician in the bay. Things like housing, public safety, access to parks. But we visited him to discuss his unique perspective as one of just a few Palestinian-American elected officials in the country. First Councilmember, I’ll have you just introduce yourself as your first and last name and then tell us what you do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Sure. My name is Sam Hindi – last name H-I-N-D-I. I am a current councilmember here in Foster City. I used to be mayor and 2018-2019. My family’s story really begins with my grandparents from both my mom’s side and my dad’s side becoming refugees in 1948. They come from a town on the northern coast of what used to be Palestine. At the time it was called Akka. In English, it was called Acre, and my grandfather from my dad’s side, he let his family kind of go to Lebanon and he stayed behind, fighting for his village and for his country until he got injured and he had to evacuate and followed the family to Lebanon. You know, I’m someone who grew up in Lebanon during the civil war. So I understand I firsthand experience impact of war. My family basically ended up being scattered all over the world. I still have family in Lebanon. I still have family in Palestine. We grew up with Palestine in our mind. Our people has been subjected to colonization and occupation for 75 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What brought you to Foster City specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>I immigrated in 1983 to the United States, and I was in Southern California. I went to college in Long Beach State, and that’s where I pursued my education. And while I was in college, I started a family business along with my brothers. And we had a career service. And then in 1992, we expanded from Southern California to Northern California. I actually stumbled over Foster City. I didn’t know that Foster City existed. I was shopping at a Middle Eastern store and started the conversation, and I told them I was thinking of moving to Burlingame and they said, ‘Well, you work in Union City. Why don’t you check out Foster City?’ I said, ‘Where is that?’ And I came to Foster City in 1992, fell in love with it. The community is such a great, diverse community that welcomes everybody. And after that, I got married and raised my children. My children were born in Foster City and went to Foster City schools. So, this is home for us. I’ve been here for so many years now, since 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about your family? Are your brothers in Foster City as well? Are they still in Southern California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>You know, Palestinians end up being everywhere and scattered everywhere because we are homeless. That’s really what we are. We are stateless. So, I have two brothers in Southern California. I have one brother in Canada. I have one sister in New York. I have one sister still in Lebanon. And if I could tell you about my extended family, there’s some in Germany, some I mean, all over Europe, some in Dubai, Saudi Arabia. It’s just wherever you can make a living, wherever you could go, because, you know, wherever you are, the concentration of the Palestinian community in Lebanon or Syria or Jordan and the camps is not really a future to have a economic and financial future. So, you end up taking the opportunities wherever you can in this large world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>On October 13th, Councilmember Hindi posted on his personal Facebook page saying, “The attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians, including killing, injuring and kidnaping, are reprehensible and war crimes.” He went on to write that “destroying and flattening entire neighborhoods in Gaza could not be justified or explained as self-defense. The footage from Gaza of civilian casualties is horrifying and beyond description.” For weeks now, Hindi has been glued to Al-Jazeera and sharing social media posts from the ground in Gaza. And he also believes very strongly that the U.S. is complicit in the killing of civilians in Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>As the U.S. government, we are guilty of genocide just as much as Israel is guilty of genocide. There is no question in my mind about this. After October 7, people were talking about, well, especially elected official in the Western world and here, you know, Israel has a right to defend itself. I think every nation has a right to defend itself. Not just Israel. That goes without saying. Let me ask these questions: is laying a siege on 2.2 million civilians, not allowing food, water, medical supplies to come in, is that defending yourself? Is bombarding homes defending yourself? Is bombing mosques and churches defending yourself? Is killing over 9000 civilians – over 3000 of them are children – defending yourself? I cannot fathom how anyone, and mainly our US administration – how do you think what is happening, by having this genocide being committed, by the suffering of so many people, by shattering the lives of so many people, gonna get us closer to peace or security? I argue that it does completely the opposite. I say it will harden more people. You will have more militant because the scars of war do not to you in one day or two. I, for one, was one of those who was hopeful for a two-state solution. And I have a lot of reservations on the Oslo Accord, but I’m talking about the principle of coexistence, the principle of making peace, the principle of living together. Unfortunately, what has happened and transpired since: the constant land theft of Palestinian land in Jerusalem and the West Bank and expanding the settlement enterprise, taking the indigenous people, kicking them out of their homes, stealing the land and building settlement on it, and all the violations of human rights and all the crimes that has been committed against the Palestinian people. Israel has been getting away with it with impunity. Unfortunately, from our country, the United States and the rest of the Western world, most of the Western world, not all of them. So I don’t see how that could happen. It’s really – and it’s kind of ironic that you hear Biden and his administration we are for a two state solution. Either they are disingenuous or they don’t know what they are talking about. And I don’t think they don’t know what they are talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>After the break, Sam Hindi talks about what role he thinks local elected officials in the Bay Area can play in this international conflict. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I want to ask you how you’re thinking about your role in this moment as a city councilor, as an American, as a Palestinian-American. What have your conversations been like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>So, that’s a very important question. I mean, I have different hats and I wear those different hats and different roles. My job as a city council member is to be representing my entire community, not just a Palestinian communities, and not just my personal views as a Palestinian American. My job is to make sure the well-being of my entire community, those on either side or those who are not even involved, that they are being respected, that we are careful how people on the other side in our community are mourning as well. We have civilians in Israel who got killed as well. And I mourn all civilians. I represent the residents of Foster City equally. But with that being said, you ask me, what do I do? I continue to reach out to our congressional representatives to share with them the perspective and the feelings of the Palestinian-Arab-Muslim community, and quite frankly, our allies, who most of them are Jewish. Jewish Voice for Peace [and] Not In Our Name: those two organization are advocating for a cease fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Have you had a chance to actually get on the phone with some of these congressional representatives you’ve reached out to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>I have. Our congressional representative for our district is Kevin Mullin. But we’ve been reaching out to other issues and not just our local representative. Obviously, you know, our community is in a lot of pain. Our children in school are scared and being called terrorists. They’re being singled out. We make sure we reach out to the attorney general of the state of California, Rob Bonta, to make him aware of these things. We continue to be anxious, continue to be scared, and we feel abandoned quite, quite frankly, by our leadership in Washington. We feel betrayed by the Biden administration, and he better be careful. He is losing, if not already lost a lot of votes, not just from Palestinians, not just from Arabs, not just from Muslims, but also from our allies. Actions have consequences and hopefully that will be reflected on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You are a city councilor of this one particular city. But we have seen Richmond, California, you know, pass a resolution standing in solidarity with the people of Palestine. I’m curious how you see your role in that way. Are there any conversations happening in Foster City, for example, about that kind of thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>That’s a very tough and important question. And just to be clear, a resolution of any kind on international policy is symbolic, although it’s important sometimes to be symbolic. I’m not dismissing the importance. It’s very important. Basically, what Richmond said, in essence, we don’t want to be silent and we’re speaking out to what we see is wrong as crime. Others have reservations. I think it was an important move for the Richmond City Council to articulate their values for human rights and for freedom. Here in Foster City, I have not approached it. And…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Would you like to see something like that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>I do. You know, on the city council. I’m one of five. To get anything done, you need at least two more people. I don’t think we’ll have three, so I weigh, is it worth going through the exercise and have the divisiveness in the community and not having the outcome? Because, you know, you’re going to open the debate and you’re going to have the divisiveness. For that reason, you way. What’s the point? What’s the value? I’m not here to divide my community. Yes, I’m here to lead. And I would love my community to see the injustice and to say that. To be fair to my colleagues, I have not approached them. I’m not suggesting that they are not or they are. I don’t know. But my gut feeling is I don’t have three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What are the conversations that you’re having with your kids right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>So my kids are at an age now that they really understand everything on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How old are they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>I have a 26, 24, and 21. My wife and I never kind of put them in and really drilled in them the Palestinian issue. They organically have seen because, unfortunately, what we are seeing now is this is like what, the fourth time at least, in Gaza. So, they grew up experiencing these things just from far away from the United States. But it’s organically had the connection they did on their own. My parents actually, the one thing that they drilled in our mind, me and my siblings, is we don’t have a problem with the Jewish religion and the Jews. This is about Zionism and the theft of Palestine. So, that is what my parents drilled in our heads. Be careful when you speak and be careful who you target with your speech. This is not a religious war. This is about colonialism and settlement and occupation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much for taking the time and for speaking with us and sitting down. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Well, thank you so much for reaching out and really for providing me the medium to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Sam Hindi, a city council member in Foster City. This conversation was pitched and produced by me. It was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo and Maria Esquinca, who scored this episode. The Bay is a production of member-supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. For 36 years, one of the largest Palestinian celebrations here in the Bay Area had been held in San Francisco’s Hall of Flowers. People from all over the region flocked to this yearly celebration, and eventually the hall’s capacity of 3000 people just couldn’t fit the amount of people showing up to this celebration every year. So, in 2018, the Palestine Day Cultural Festival was moved to Foster City, a community of about 33,000 people in San Mateo County. That same year, a man by the name of Sam Hindi had been elected mayor of Foster City, becoming only the second Palestinian American to hold elected office in the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>My name is Ericka, I’m here to interview Sam Hindi:. And we’re in the lobby. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Ericka? Hi, Ericka. A pleasure to meet you. Pleasure. Thank you for coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hi. Maria. Nice to meet you\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Nice to meet you, Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Maria, Alan, and I recently went to Foster City to talk with Sam Hindi. We took an elevator up to his office on the second floor of City Hall, which revealed a perfect view of the San Mateo Bridge in the distance. The bridge looks amazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That’s really cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Yeah, yeah. I mean, this whole area here. Yeah. This used to be light industrial, And this year we have added so much needed housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Usually, Councilmember Hindi talks about stuff you’d expect from a local politician in the bay. Things like housing, public safety, access to parks. But we visited him to discuss his unique perspective as one of just a few Palestinian-American elected officials in the country. First Councilmember, I’ll have you just introduce yourself as your first and last name and then tell us what you do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Sure. My name is Sam Hindi – last name H-I-N-D-I. I am a current councilmember here in Foster City. I used to be mayor and 2018-2019. My family’s story really begins with my grandparents from both my mom’s side and my dad’s side becoming refugees in 1948. They come from a town on the northern coast of what used to be Palestine. At the time it was called Akka. In English, it was called Acre, and my grandfather from my dad’s side, he let his family kind of go to Lebanon and he stayed behind, fighting for his village and for his country until he got injured and he had to evacuate and followed the family to Lebanon. You know, I’m someone who grew up in Lebanon during the civil war. So I understand I firsthand experience impact of war. My family basically ended up being scattered all over the world. I still have family in Lebanon. I still have family in Palestine. We grew up with Palestine in our mind. Our people has been subjected to colonization and occupation for 75 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What brought you to Foster City specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>I immigrated in 1983 to the United States, and I was in Southern California. I went to college in Long Beach State, and that’s where I pursued my education. And while I was in college, I started a family business along with my brothers. And we had a career service. And then in 1992, we expanded from Southern California to Northern California. I actually stumbled over Foster City. I didn’t know that Foster City existed. I was shopping at a Middle Eastern store and started the conversation, and I told them I was thinking of moving to Burlingame and they said, ‘Well, you work in Union City. Why don’t you check out Foster City?’ I said, ‘Where is that?’ And I came to Foster City in 1992, fell in love with it. The community is such a great, diverse community that welcomes everybody. And after that, I got married and raised my children. My children were born in Foster City and went to Foster City schools. So, this is home for us. I’ve been here for so many years now, since 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about your family? Are your brothers in Foster City as well? Are they still in Southern California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>You know, Palestinians end up being everywhere and scattered everywhere because we are homeless. That’s really what we are. We are stateless. So, I have two brothers in Southern California. I have one brother in Canada. I have one sister in New York. I have one sister still in Lebanon. And if I could tell you about my extended family, there’s some in Germany, some I mean, all over Europe, some in Dubai, Saudi Arabia. It’s just wherever you can make a living, wherever you could go, because, you know, wherever you are, the concentration of the Palestinian community in Lebanon or Syria or Jordan and the camps is not really a future to have a economic and financial future. So, you end up taking the opportunities wherever you can in this large world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>On October 13th, Councilmember Hindi posted on his personal Facebook page saying, “The attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians, including killing, injuring and kidnaping, are reprehensible and war crimes.” He went on to write that “destroying and flattening entire neighborhoods in Gaza could not be justified or explained as self-defense. The footage from Gaza of civilian casualties is horrifying and beyond description.” For weeks now, Hindi has been glued to Al-Jazeera and sharing social media posts from the ground in Gaza. And he also believes very strongly that the U.S. is complicit in the killing of civilians in Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>As the U.S. government, we are guilty of genocide just as much as Israel is guilty of genocide. There is no question in my mind about this. After October 7, people were talking about, well, especially elected official in the Western world and here, you know, Israel has a right to defend itself. I think every nation has a right to defend itself. Not just Israel. That goes without saying. Let me ask these questions: is laying a siege on 2.2 million civilians, not allowing food, water, medical supplies to come in, is that defending yourself? Is bombarding homes defending yourself? Is bombing mosques and churches defending yourself? Is killing over 9000 civilians – over 3000 of them are children – defending yourself? I cannot fathom how anyone, and mainly our US administration – how do you think what is happening, by having this genocide being committed, by the suffering of so many people, by shattering the lives of so many people, gonna get us closer to peace or security? I argue that it does completely the opposite. I say it will harden more people. You will have more militant because the scars of war do not to you in one day or two. I, for one, was one of those who was hopeful for a two-state solution. And I have a lot of reservations on the Oslo Accord, but I’m talking about the principle of coexistence, the principle of making peace, the principle of living together. Unfortunately, what has happened and transpired since: the constant land theft of Palestinian land in Jerusalem and the West Bank and expanding the settlement enterprise, taking the indigenous people, kicking them out of their homes, stealing the land and building settlement on it, and all the violations of human rights and all the crimes that has been committed against the Palestinian people. Israel has been getting away with it with impunity. Unfortunately, from our country, the United States and the rest of the Western world, most of the Western world, not all of them. So I don’t see how that could happen. It’s really – and it’s kind of ironic that you hear Biden and his administration we are for a two state solution. Either they are disingenuous or they don’t know what they are talking about. And I don’t think they don’t know what they are talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>After the break, Sam Hindi talks about what role he thinks local elected officials in the Bay Area can play in this international conflict. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I want to ask you how you’re thinking about your role in this moment as a city councilor, as an American, as a Palestinian-American. What have your conversations been like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>So, that’s a very important question. I mean, I have different hats and I wear those different hats and different roles. My job as a city council member is to be representing my entire community, not just a Palestinian communities, and not just my personal views as a Palestinian American. My job is to make sure the well-being of my entire community, those on either side or those who are not even involved, that they are being respected, that we are careful how people on the other side in our community are mourning as well. We have civilians in Israel who got killed as well. And I mourn all civilians. I represent the residents of Foster City equally. But with that being said, you ask me, what do I do? I continue to reach out to our congressional representatives to share with them the perspective and the feelings of the Palestinian-Arab-Muslim community, and quite frankly, our allies, who most of them are Jewish. Jewish Voice for Peace [and] Not In Our Name: those two organization are advocating for a cease fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Have you had a chance to actually get on the phone with some of these congressional representatives you’ve reached out to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>I have. Our congressional representative for our district is Kevin Mullin. But we’ve been reaching out to other issues and not just our local representative. Obviously, you know, our community is in a lot of pain. Our children in school are scared and being called terrorists. They’re being singled out. We make sure we reach out to the attorney general of the state of California, Rob Bonta, to make him aware of these things. We continue to be anxious, continue to be scared, and we feel abandoned quite, quite frankly, by our leadership in Washington. We feel betrayed by the Biden administration, and he better be careful. He is losing, if not already lost a lot of votes, not just from Palestinians, not just from Arabs, not just from Muslims, but also from our allies. Actions have consequences and hopefully that will be reflected on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You are a city councilor of this one particular city. But we have seen Richmond, California, you know, pass a resolution standing in solidarity with the people of Palestine. I’m curious how you see your role in that way. Are there any conversations happening in Foster City, for example, about that kind of thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>That’s a very tough and important question. And just to be clear, a resolution of any kind on international policy is symbolic, although it’s important sometimes to be symbolic. I’m not dismissing the importance. It’s very important. Basically, what Richmond said, in essence, we don’t want to be silent and we’re speaking out to what we see is wrong as crime. Others have reservations. I think it was an important move for the Richmond City Council to articulate their values for human rights and for freedom. Here in Foster City, I have not approached it. And…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Would you like to see something like that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>I do. You know, on the city council. I’m one of five. To get anything done, you need at least two more people. I don’t think we’ll have three, so I weigh, is it worth going through the exercise and have the divisiveness in the community and not having the outcome? Because, you know, you’re going to open the debate and you’re going to have the divisiveness. For that reason, you way. What’s the point? What’s the value? I’m not here to divide my community. Yes, I’m here to lead. And I would love my community to see the injustice and to say that. To be fair to my colleagues, I have not approached them. I’m not suggesting that they are not or they are. I don’t know. But my gut feeling is I don’t have three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What are the conversations that you’re having with your kids right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>So my kids are at an age now that they really understand everything on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How old are they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>I have a 26, 24, and 21. My wife and I never kind of put them in and really drilled in them the Palestinian issue. They organically have seen because, unfortunately, what we are seeing now is this is like what, the fourth time at least, in Gaza. So, they grew up experiencing these things just from far away from the United States. But it’s organically had the connection they did on their own. My parents actually, the one thing that they drilled in our mind, me and my siblings, is we don’t have a problem with the Jewish religion and the Jews. This is about Zionism and the theft of Palestine. So, that is what my parents drilled in our heads. Be careful when you speak and be careful who you target with your speech. This is not a religious war. This is about colonialism and settlement and occupation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much for taking the time and for speaking with us and sitting down. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sam Hindi: \u003c/strong>Well, thank you so much for reaching out and really for providing me the medium to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Sam Hindi, a city council member in Foster City. This conversation was pitched and produced by me. It was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo and Maria Esquinca, who scored this episode. The Bay is a production of member-supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>Palestinian people and their allies are continuing calls for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. Thousands of people filled San Francisco’s Civic Center on Saturday, joining nationwide rallies calling for an end to the fighting and for the U.S. to stop sending aid to Israel. The rally was the biggest so far in the Bay Area since the war began on October 7, and one of numerous actions in other cities, including a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C., with \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/ProtestmarchesbythousandsinEuropedemandhalttoIsraelibombingofGazaunderpolicewatch/193a9aaca97df2c5c6a515f756a40a34/text?Query=Palestine%20protests&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=31¤tItemNo=1\">other demonstrations\u003c/a> taking place across Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman waves a Palestinian flag amid a crowd of protesters.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman waves a Palestinian flag at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am optimistic about the unbelievable outpouring. Just coming here on BART this morning, half the car was people with signs,” said Seth Morrison, a member of the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, at the rally. “I’m seeing all over the country our JVP chapters, our actions are bigger than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man in a blue and white cap and a Palestinian flag draped around his neck looks away with a blurred crowd in the back.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Morrison, 72, attends the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. Morrison, who lives in El Cerrito, has been organizing with Jewish Voice for Peace since 2011. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Ali, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement Bay Area Chapter, says she hopes the marches happening across the country draw attention to the thousands of Palestinians that have been killed in Gaza since the war began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing today is a shock to the human conscience. People need to focus on the real root issue of violence which is Israeli settler colonial occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510.jpg\" alt=\"A young Palestinian-American woman speaks to reporters.\" width=\"1708\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510.jpg 1708w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne Ali, 25, speaks with reporters at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. Ali of San Francisco is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea Muir said she has family in Gaza that have been displaced from their home, and that one of her cousins has died as a result of the fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t feel right to sit at home,” said Muir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a month since Hamas launched an unprecedented cross-border attack into Israel from Gaza, killing at least 1,400 people and taking approximately 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. In the weeks since, Israel’s unrelenting attacks on Gaza have killed \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/LiveupdatesPalestiniansreportdeadlyIsraeliairstrikesincludinginsouthernGaza/5f45787afc214e279f2ec4b160b7a910/text?Query=Washington%20DC%20&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=128¤tItemNo=1\">more than 9,400 people\u003c/a>, at least 3,600 of whom were children, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\">Health Ministry in Gaza\u003c/a>. Over \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/ThesenumbersshowthestaggeringtolloftheIsrael-Hamaswar/5c9dc40bec95a8408c83f3c2fb759da0/text?Query=Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=685¤tItemNo=0\">1.4 million people have been displaced\u003c/a>. Calls for a cease-fire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/03/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/blinken-expected-to-push-netanyahu-for-humanitarian-pauses-in-military-operations?smid=url-share\">including a call for a humanitarian pause from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday\u003c/a>, have so far been rebuffed by Israel, as supplies of food, water and medicine in Gaza run dangerously low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has seen a series of vigils and rallies in recent weeks. Last Saturday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937170/the-art-of-protest-in-san-francisco-5-messages-from-the-gaza-rally\">an estimated 15,000 protesters marched up Market Street in downtown San Francisco and onto the Highway 101\u003c/a>. The following day, hundreds attended a tightly guarded pro-Israel rally in downtown San Francisco at Yerba Buena Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966448\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people on the lawn in front of San Francisco City Hall in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands gather at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Bay Area residents traveled to Washington D.C. this weekend, joining the march there calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, an end to the siege of Gaza, and for an immediate ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to do what I can in this moment and onwards to ensure that more Palestinians aren’t displaced from their lands, like my grandparents, using U.S. taxpayer dollars,” said Rami Abdelkarim, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement in the Bay Area. “I want to join the people who refuse to sit idly by while our country funds the destruction and the displacement of my ancestors and my people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters hold signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands showed up to attend the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco rally attendee Kisae Hussein said she feels a moral obligation to protest because her country, the United States, is spending tax dollars to support Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard not to feel despair when there’s all these marches and our representatives are still doing what they’re doing,” she said. “But if there’s enough pushback, if we boycott, divest, sanction, if we keep moving forward with these actions I think we have to have hope that something will happen despite how impossible it may seem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966454\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with a Palestinian flag looks into the camera as protesters chant and hold signs behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Shain, 6, attends the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally with his mom Faten, who says they currently have family in Jordan and Palestine. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The response to the protesters’ calls by California politicians has been mixed. \u003c/span>California’s leading Senate candidates, running to fill the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat, have largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-senate-israel-18429179.php\">expressed support for Israel’s response to the Hamas attacks. \u003c/a>Meanwhile, East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1714466926032744879\">calling for a cease-fire\u003c/a> and is stressing that Israel must respond “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1712925097042853891\">within the framework of international law\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the White House has not called for a cease-fire thus far, President Biden on Wednesday did \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/BidencallsforhumanitarianpauseinIsrael-Hamaswar/422ed95081e5fe224dd9f0ed7920c4e8/text?Query=Biden%20Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=218¤tItemNo=25\">call for a humanitarian pause\u003c/a> in Gaza, at a time of mounting pressure from human rights groups, and even members of his own Democratic Party. But a majority of the U.S. Congress continues to support the Israeli military. The House of Representatives recently \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/Houseapprovesnearly145billioninmilitaryaidforIsraelBidenvowstovetotheGOPapproach/b7bfe528b12ac5954cfd5c034f11320d/text?Query=Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=673¤tItemNo=3\">approved $14.5 billion in military aid\u003c/a> for Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966303/san-francisco-law-firm-sues-biden-administration-in-push-to-immediately-evacuate-palestinian-americans-stuck-in-gaza\">a San Francisco law firm sued the Biden administration\u003c/a> in a push to evacuate Palestinian-Americans trapped in Gaza, saying that while some American citizens have been evacuated, the administration has so far failed to bring Palestinian-Americans home to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters with signs and Palestinian flags gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall call for the Israeli military to cease fire in Palestine. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s Jewish Community Relations Council CEO Tyler Gregory said the JCRC and the Jewish Community are calling on the Biden administration to do everything to provide humanitarian aid and work with Israelis to minimize loss of life. But, he added, Israel would not live with a cease-fire until the hostages are returned and Hamas is “no longer ruling the Gaza Strip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that it’s reasonable that Israel has the right to self-defense and to try to reclaim its hostages,” Gregory said on Friday. “And we know that the United States would do the exact same thing. There is a lot of hypocrisy going around by those that are denying Israel the right to finish this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-running-out-time-un-experts-warn-demanding-ceasefire-prevent-genocide-0\">United Nations experts are warning\u003c/a> that Gaza is “running out of time” and are calling for an immediate cease-fire “to prevent genocide.” Amnesty International has referred to Israeli governance of Palestinians as “oppressive and discriminatory” and “a system of apartheid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers are planning more actions in the weeks ahead, including a protest at the Oakland Federal Building on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara, Annelise Finney, Attila Pelit, David Marks and Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Palestinian people and their allies are continuing calls for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. Thousands of people filled San Francisco’s Civic Center on Saturday, joining nationwide rallies calling for an end to the fighting and for the U.S. to stop sending aid to Israel. The rally was the biggest so far in the Bay Area since the war began on October 7, and one of numerous actions in other cities, including a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C., with \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/ProtestmarchesbythousandsinEuropedemandhalttoIsraelibombingofGazaunderpolicewatch/193a9aaca97df2c5c6a515f756a40a34/text?Query=Palestine%20protests&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=31¤tItemNo=1\">other demonstrations\u003c/a> taking place across Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman waves a Palestinian flag amid a crowd of protesters.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_018-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman waves a Palestinian flag at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am optimistic about the unbelievable outpouring. Just coming here on BART this morning, half the car was people with signs,” said Seth Morrison, a member of the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, at the rally. “I’m seeing all over the country our JVP chapters, our actions are bigger than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man in a blue and white cap and a Palestinian flag draped around his neck looks away with a blurred crowd in the back.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_004-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Morrison, 72, attends the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. Morrison, who lives in El Cerrito, has been organizing with Jewish Voice for Peace since 2011. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Ali, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement Bay Area Chapter, says she hopes the marches happening across the country draw attention to the thousands of Palestinians that have been killed in Gaza since the war began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing today is a shock to the human conscience. People need to focus on the real root issue of violence which is Israeli settler colonial occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510.jpg\" alt=\"A young Palestinian-American woman speaks to reporters.\" width=\"1708\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510.jpg 1708w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_001-qut-scaled-e1699144666510-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne Ali, 25, speaks with reporters at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. Ali of San Francisco is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea Muir said she has family in Gaza that have been displaced from their home, and that one of her cousins has died as a result of the fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t feel right to sit at home,” said Muir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a month since Hamas launched an unprecedented cross-border attack into Israel from Gaza, killing at least 1,400 people and taking approximately 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. In the weeks since, Israel’s unrelenting attacks on Gaza have killed \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/LiveupdatesPalestiniansreportdeadlyIsraeliairstrikesincludinginsouthernGaza/5f45787afc214e279f2ec4b160b7a910/text?Query=Washington%20DC%20&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=128¤tItemNo=1\">more than 9,400 people\u003c/a>, at least 3,600 of whom were children, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\">Health Ministry in Gaza\u003c/a>. Over \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/ThesenumbersshowthestaggeringtolloftheIsrael-Hamaswar/5c9dc40bec95a8408c83f3c2fb759da0/text?Query=Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=685¤tItemNo=0\">1.4 million people have been displaced\u003c/a>. Calls for a cease-fire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/03/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/blinken-expected-to-push-netanyahu-for-humanitarian-pauses-in-military-operations?smid=url-share\">including a call for a humanitarian pause from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday\u003c/a>, have so far been rebuffed by Israel, as supplies of food, water and medicine in Gaza run dangerously low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has seen a series of vigils and rallies in recent weeks. Last Saturday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937170/the-art-of-protest-in-san-francisco-5-messages-from-the-gaza-rally\">an estimated 15,000 protesters marched up Market Street in downtown San Francisco and onto the Highway 101\u003c/a>. The following day, hundreds attended a tightly guarded pro-Israel rally in downtown San Francisco at Yerba Buena Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966448\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people on the lawn in front of San Francisco City Hall in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands gather at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Bay Area residents traveled to Washington D.C. this weekend, joining the march there calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, an end to the siege of Gaza, and for an immediate ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to do what I can in this moment and onwards to ensure that more Palestinians aren’t displaced from their lands, like my grandparents, using U.S. taxpayer dollars,” said Rami Abdelkarim, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement in the Bay Area. “I want to join the people who refuse to sit idly by while our country funds the destruction and the displacement of my ancestors and my people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters hold signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_007-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands showed up to attend the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco rally attendee Kisae Hussein said she feels a moral obligation to protest because her country, the United States, is spending tax dollars to support Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard not to feel despair when there’s all these marches and our representatives are still doing what they’re doing,” she said. “But if there’s enough pushback, if we boycott, divest, sanction, if we keep moving forward with these actions I think we have to have hope that something will happen despite how impossible it may seem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966454\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with a Palestinian flag looks into the camera as protesters chant and hold signs behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_013-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Shain, 6, attends the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally with his mom Faten, who says they currently have family in Jordan and Palestine. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The response to the protesters’ calls by California politicians has been mixed. \u003c/span>California’s leading Senate candidates, running to fill the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat, have largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-senate-israel-18429179.php\">expressed support for Israel’s response to the Hamas attacks. \u003c/a>Meanwhile, East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1714466926032744879\">calling for a cease-fire\u003c/a> and is stressing that Israel must respond “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1712925097042853891\">within the framework of international law\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the White House has not called for a cease-fire thus far, President Biden on Wednesday did \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/BidencallsforhumanitarianpauseinIsrael-Hamaswar/422ed95081e5fe224dd9f0ed7920c4e8/text?Query=Biden%20Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=218¤tItemNo=25\">call for a humanitarian pause\u003c/a> in Gaza, at a time of mounting pressure from human rights groups, and even members of his own Democratic Party. But a majority of the U.S. Congress continues to support the Israeli military. The House of Representatives recently \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/Houseapprovesnearly145billioninmilitaryaidforIsraelBidenvowstovetotheGOPapproach/b7bfe528b12ac5954cfd5c034f11320d/text?Query=Israel&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=673¤tItemNo=3\">approved $14.5 billion in military aid\u003c/a> for Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966303/san-francisco-law-firm-sues-biden-administration-in-push-to-immediately-evacuate-palestinian-americans-stuck-in-gaza\">a San Francisco law firm sued the Biden administration\u003c/a> in a push to evacuate Palestinian-Americans trapped in Gaza, saying that while some American citizens have been evacuated, the administration has so far failed to bring Palestinian-Americans home to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters with signs and Palestinian flags gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/KSM_PalestineRally_016_TONED-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the International Day of Solidarity: Free Palestine rally in front of City Hall call for the Israeli military to cease fire in Palestine. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s Jewish Community Relations Council CEO Tyler Gregory said the JCRC and the Jewish Community are calling on the Biden administration to do everything to provide humanitarian aid and work with Israelis to minimize loss of life. But, he added, Israel would not live with a cease-fire until the hostages are returned and Hamas is “no longer ruling the Gaza Strip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that it’s reasonable that Israel has the right to self-defense and to try to reclaim its hostages,” Gregory said on Friday. “And we know that the United States would do the exact same thing. There is a lot of hypocrisy going around by those that are denying Israel the right to finish this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-running-out-time-un-experts-warn-demanding-ceasefire-prevent-genocide-0\">United Nations experts are warning\u003c/a> that Gaza is “running out of time” and are calling for an immediate cease-fire “to prevent genocide.” Amnesty International has referred to Israeli governance of Palestinians as “oppressive and discriminatory” and “a system of apartheid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers are planning more actions in the weeks ahead, including a protest at the Oakland Federal Building on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara, Annelise Finney, Attila Pelit, David Marks and Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Is Biden's Goal of a 2-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Still Possible?",
"headTitle": "Is Biden’s Goal of a 2-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Still Possible? | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>Israel continues to respond to Hamas’ unprecedented attack on its people, bombarding Gaza and preparing for a ground offensive. Humanitarian groups and some foreign leaders are calling for a cease-fire. But what are the prospects for long-term peace? [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"President Joe Biden\"]‘In our view, it has to be a two-state solution. And that means a concentrated effort for all the parties — Israelis, Palestinians, regional partners, global leaders — to put us on a path toward peace.’[/pullquote]President Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQv_L-NBiNg\">said Wednesday\u003c/a> that there is no going back to the status quo before Oct. 7 — meaning in part that when the crisis is over, there must be a view of what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our view, it has to be a two-state solution,” he said, \u003ca href=\"https://sv.usembassy.gov/president-bidens-statement-during-his-visit-to-tel-aviv/\">reiterating a comment\u003c/a> he made during his visit to Israel. “And that means a concentrated effort for all the parties — Israelis, Palestinians, regional partners, global leaders — to put us on a path toward peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-state solution calls for establishing an independent state for Palestinians alongside that of Israel. And U.S. support for it is nothing new: For decades, it has been the primary proposed framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But failed peace talks, logistical questions, expanded Israeli settlements, Palestinian attacks and recurring clashes have kept it from becoming a reality. The two-state solution has seen dwindling support from both Palestinians and Israelis over the years. And its prospects now seem dimmer than ever, in light of Hamas’ attack on Israel and Israel’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Ross, who was the chief U.S. negotiator at the 2000 Camp David summit between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1207243717/23-years-ago-israelis-and-palestinians-were-talking-about-a-two-state-solution\">told NPR\u003c/a> that as heartbreaking as the situation is in the Middle East right now, eventually “there needs to be a day after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to understand: Israelis aren’t going anyplace, and Palestinians aren’t going anyplace,” Ross said. “Somehow, given that, we have to find a way towards coexistence, and obviously, we’re not there now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did the two-state solution come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is long-running and complex but primarily rooted in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-us-policy-israeli-palestinian-conflict#chapter-title-0-1\">dispute over land\u003c/a> with immense historical and religious significance to Jews and Muslims (as well as Christians).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish proponents of the Zionist movement began moving to Ottoman Palestine — which was predominantly Arab — in the late 19th century, seeking safety from European antisemitism in their ancient homeland. Many more followed suit after the Holocaust. [aside postID=news_11965403 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231019-GazaRally-011-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg']Tensions grew between the two groups. Britain — which had governed Palestine since 1922 — referred the issue to the United Nations. The U.N. General Assembly voted in 1947 to divide Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-181\">partition plan\u003c/a> was rejected by the Arab community, in part due to concerns about how much land and access to resources it would get. But the plan was embraced by the Jewish community as legal justification for the establishment of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/timeline/#:~:text=MAY%201948%3A%20Great%20Britain%20terminates,Nakba%20(%E2%80%9Ccatastrophe%E2%80%9D).\">declared independence\u003c/a> in May 1948. Five Arab nations \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/arab-israeli-war\">immediately invaded\u003c/a> the new country, prompting a major Israeli offensive and many months of fighting. That resulted in the permanent displacement of thousands of Palestinians, which some refer to as \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/about-the-nakba/\">the Nakba\u003c/a>, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major turning point came in 1967, with Israel’s decisive victory in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/Six-Day-War\">Six-Day War\u003c/a> against Egypt, Syria and Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel gained territory \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-1967-six-day-war\">four times its original size\u003c/a>, taking control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those territories have been a major point of contention and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206720312/biden-israel-palestinians-presidents-mideast-peace\">peace negotiations\u003c/a> ever since. The U.N. \u003ca href=\"https://peacemaker.un.org/middle-east-resolution242\">issued a resolution\u003c/a> in 1967 calling for Israeli troops to withdraw from areas it captured, though the resolution’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-242\">meaning has been disputed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set up the current occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which are collectively \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/israel-west-bank-and-gaza/west-bank-and-gaza/#:~:text=Section%20I.-,Religious%20Demography,Gaza%20Strip%20(midyear%202022).\">home to some 5 million Palestinians\u003c/a>. (Israel pulled troops and settlers \u003ca href=\"https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israels%20Disengagement%20Plan-%202005.aspx#:~:text=With%20the%20implementation%20of%20the,settlements%20in%20Samaria%2C%20was%20completed.\">out of Gaza \u003c/a>in 2005, but it’s still considered an occupied territory because the withdrawal was done without any agreement and Israel still \u003ca href=\"https://www.unicef.org/mena/documents/gaza-strip-humanitarian-impact-15-years-blockade-june-2022\">exerts control\u003c/a> over it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-state solution was baked into Israel’s creation but didn’t necessarily play out as planned, says Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What started off in the U.N.’s mind as a 50-50 split of Mandatory Palestine, after the 1948 war — which was initiated by the Arab armies — it was more than 50 percent for Israel. After 1967, it was 100 percent-plus for Israel,” he says. “And now Israel is, I think, the only country that’s hard to draw on a map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has the two-state solution ever come close to reality?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. President Bill Clinton brought Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin together in 1993 to negotiate the agreement that came to be known as the \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1993-2000/oslo\">Oslo Accords\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, Israel officially recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people and a partner in future negotiations, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal raised expectations for a two-state solution. But it quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206720312/biden-israel-palestinians-presidents-mideast-peace\">began to unravel\u003c/a> after a series of events, including a 1994 attack on a mosque in Hebron by an American Jewish settler and Rabin’s assassination in 1995 by an Israeli settler opposed to the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the Oslo Accords were signed, Israel enhanced its policy of fragmenting Gaza from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, says Atalia Omer, a professor of religion, conflict and peace studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Israeli settlements continued to proliferate in the West Bank — on occupied land that the Palestinians hoped would be part of their state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that has continued in the years since. The population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, grew from 520,000 to more than 700,000 between 2012 and 2022, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/03/human-rights-council-hears-current-israeli-plan-double-settler-population-occupied\">U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Settlements continue to eat into Palestinian spaces,” Omer says. “And over the course of the 30 years since the Oslo Accords — signed in the White House in September 1993 — the settlements completely prevented the possibility of a contiguous sovereign Palestinian state within that two-state framework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the other obstacles?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Discussions of a two-state solution center on a number of core issues, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-us-policy-israeli-palestinian-conflict#chapter-title-0-1\">Council on Foreign Relations\u003c/a> explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is how exactly the borders would be drawn. Most international diplomacy favors Israel reverting to a version of its pre-1967 borders, without a consensus on how that would account for the Palestinians living within those borders or the Jewish Israelis beyond them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel has annexed the whole city of Jerusalem as its capital, while Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of their state — which makes for another logistical question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the major question of Palestinian refugees of the wars of 1948 and 1967. The survivors and their descendants live mostly in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and claim the right to return to Israel based on a 1948 \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/content/resolution-194#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20General%20Assembly,not%20to%20return%20and%20for\">U.N. General Assembly resolution\u003c/a>. Israel views that right to return as a threat to its existence as a Jewish state and believes those refugees should go to the Palestinian state instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security looms large, too. Israel views certain Palestinian militant groups as existential threats — including Hamas, which governs Gaza and whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39775103\">founding charter\u003c/a> called for the obliteration of Israel — and wants them to disarm. Israel wants to maintain the ability to act in Palestinian areas against security threats. Palestinians want an end to Israel’s military occupation and full control over their own security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides want recognition of their respective states by the other and the international community. Palestinians also want acknowledgment of and redress for their forced displacement, Omer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be a recognition and kind of naming, and then put in place mechanisms to redress — how can Palestinians be compensated for historical injustice they experienced — and then figure out ways of respecting Jewish citizens in the space through principles of equality and democracy,” Omer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did peace negotiations stand before this war?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There has been little progress since the turn of the millennium. The collapse of the 2000 peace process fueled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080066/israel-palestine-intifadas-first-second\">Second Intifada\u003c/a>, a major Palestinian uprising in the Israel-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ended in 2005 with some 1,000 Israelis and 3,200 Palestinians dead, along with heightened skepticism of the peace process on both sides. Those feelings seem to have prevailed in the years since, which have been marked by terrorist attacks, military raids, rocket fire, border clashes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-conflict-timeline.html\">other incidents\u003c/a>. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jon Alterman, director, Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies\"]‘As a fundamental proposition, it’s hard to have productive peace talks when no side sees either urgency or necessity to reach an agreement.’[/pullquote]“As a fundamental proposition, it’s hard to have productive peace talks when no side sees either urgency or necessity to reach an agreement,” says Alterman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that from an Israeli perspective, security was improving, Palestinian demands were diminishing and it would be politically divisive to make concessions to them. Palestinians, meanwhile, had a sense that they couldn’t make an agreement with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189720508/israel-politics-netanyahu-judiciary\">right-wing government\u003c/a> of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that it wasn’t worth giving up rights when demographics were in their favor in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the while, support for a two-state solution has shrunk considerably among \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-palestine#palestinian-and-israeli-support-for-a-two-state-solution-is-shrinking-polls-show\">both Israelis and Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/512828/palestinians-lack-faith-biden-two-state-solution.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication#:~:text=Generational%20Divide%20on%20the%20Two,Palestinians%20aged%2046%20and%20older.\">Gallup poll\u003c/a> released last week — conducted before Hamas’ attack on Israel — found that just 24% of Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem supported a two-state solution. That figure is down from 59% in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/26/israelis-have-grown-more-skeptical-of-a-two-state-solution/\">Pew Research Center poll\u003c/a> released in September found that only 35% of Israelis think “a way can be found for Israel and an independent Palestinian state to coexist peacefully,” a decline of 15 percentage points since 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A decent number of Israelis and Palestinians have come to conclude that it’s not a solution, that the nature of Israeli behavior, especially in the West Bank, makes a Palestinian state unviable,” says Alterman, noting that many members of the Israeli government want to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/14/875593140/as-israel-vows-annexation-palestinian-leaders-embark-on-risky-form-of-protest\">annex the West Bank \u003c/a>altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s too early to say where the current conflict will go, though many Israelis believe Israeli politics are more likely to move to the right than the left in the wake of Hamas’ attack, which killed some 1,400 people in Israel and resulted in more than 220 hostages taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to Israeli officials, I don’t get any sense that part of the strategy is providing a political horizon for Palestinians,” he added, “which is what a peace agreement would ostensibly be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean Israeli citizens aren’t pushing for peace at all. Sally Abed is a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.standing-together.org/about-us\">Standing Together\u003c/a>, an organization that aims to improve Arab-Jewish relations within Israel, and she’s also a Palestinian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t want to think that we needed to endure such loss, such atrocities here in Israel,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/21/1207763482/peace-activists-in-israel-speak-about-their-hopes-for-the-end-of-war\">she told NPR\u003c/a>. “But maybe now I really hope that from this dark corner, we can have this shift in the paradigm on how we actually look at these wars and how, actually, we look at the Israeli control over Gaza and over the West Bank, and really have a different outlook on what our leadership actually should look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the alternatives?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are alternatives to a two-state solution — including a one-state solution, a confederation, annexation and maintaining the status quo — at least in theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA725-1.html\">Rand Corp. focus groups\u003c/a> conducted in 2018 and 2019 found that none of those was acceptable to a majority of both Israelis and Palestinians, underscoring the deep complexities and emotions involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alterman says one of the biggest challenges for Israelis is balancing the need for a Jewish state and a democratic state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a one-state solution that gives citizenship to all of the natural-born residents of Mandatory Palestine — which includes Gaza and the West Bank — you don’t have a Jewish majority,” he explained. “A substantial line of thought [in Israel] is that it’s more important that Israel be Jewish than democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, most Americans — 73% — would choose a democratic over a Jewish Israel, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/americans-opt-for-a-democratic-israel-not-a-jewish-state/\">University of Maryland and Ipsos poll\u003c/a> conducted this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omer is one of many who see the current reality as that of a single state. She points to the exclusionary practices and annexationist policies of the right-wing Netanyahu government, like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/7/19/israel-passes-controversial-jewish-nation-state-law\">2018 law that demoted Arabic\u003c/a> as one of Israel’s official languages, and the recent findings of human rights groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/956020789/israeli-human-rights-group-says-the-country-pursues-nondemocratic-apartheid-regi\">in and beyond Israel\u003c/a> that its practices toward Palestinians \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/\">amount to apartheid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says some Israeli and Palestinian activists support a one-state solution, but in \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080094/what-are-the-two-state-solution-and-the-one-state-solution\">different formats\u003c/a> and for different reasons. [aside postID=news_11964835 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-21-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Some leftists and Palestinians support the creation of a democratic, secular country in which Arab Muslims would outnumber Jews. But some rightists and Israelis would prefer to see Israel annex the West Bank — either forcing out Palestinians or denying them the right to vote — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2020/06/israeli-annexation-parts-palestinian-west-bank-would-break-international-law-un\">which is illegal\u003c/a> under international human rights law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some activists, like the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.alandforall.org/english/?d=ltr\">A Land for All\u003c/a>, argue that solutions based on separation have failed in the past, and they are instead pushing for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alandforall.org/english-program/?d=ltr\">confederal framework\u003c/a>, with two sovereign states sharing the capital of Jerusalem and an open border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omer says there are “historical examples of life together in this space that is not within the paradigm of domination.” She acknowledges that it’s hard to imagine those kinds of possibilities in this moment but says the need for change is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we can see depends on, also, an expression of how the paradigm that had been there before Oct. 7 is completely collapsing,” she says. “And all these contradictions just cannot be sustained anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Tensions grew between the two groups. Britain — which had governed Palestine since 1922 — referred the issue to the United Nations. The U.N. General Assembly voted in 1947 to divide Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-181\">partition plan\u003c/a> was rejected by the Arab community, in part due to concerns about how much land and access to resources it would get. But the plan was embraced by the Jewish community as legal justification for the establishment of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/timeline/#:~:text=MAY%201948%3A%20Great%20Britain%20terminates,Nakba%20(%E2%80%9Ccatastrophe%E2%80%9D).\">declared independence\u003c/a> in May 1948. Five Arab nations \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/arab-israeli-war\">immediately invaded\u003c/a> the new country, prompting a major Israeli offensive and many months of fighting. That resulted in the permanent displacement of thousands of Palestinians, which some refer to as \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/about-the-nakba/\">the Nakba\u003c/a>, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major turning point came in 1967, with Israel’s decisive victory in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/Six-Day-War\">Six-Day War\u003c/a> against Egypt, Syria and Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel gained territory \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-1967-six-day-war\">four times its original size\u003c/a>, taking control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those territories have been a major point of contention and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206720312/biden-israel-palestinians-presidents-mideast-peace\">peace negotiations\u003c/a> ever since. The U.N. \u003ca href=\"https://peacemaker.un.org/middle-east-resolution242\">issued a resolution\u003c/a> in 1967 calling for Israeli troops to withdraw from areas it captured, though the resolution’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-242\">meaning has been disputed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set up the current occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which are collectively \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/israel-west-bank-and-gaza/west-bank-and-gaza/#:~:text=Section%20I.-,Religious%20Demography,Gaza%20Strip%20(midyear%202022).\">home to some 5 million Palestinians\u003c/a>. (Israel pulled troops and settlers \u003ca href=\"https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/Israels%20Disengagement%20Plan-%202005.aspx#:~:text=With%20the%20implementation%20of%20the,settlements%20in%20Samaria%2C%20was%20completed.\">out of Gaza \u003c/a>in 2005, but it’s still considered an occupied territory because the withdrawal was done without any agreement and Israel still \u003ca href=\"https://www.unicef.org/mena/documents/gaza-strip-humanitarian-impact-15-years-blockade-june-2022\">exerts control\u003c/a> over it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-state solution was baked into Israel’s creation but didn’t necessarily play out as planned, says Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What started off in the U.N.’s mind as a 50-50 split of Mandatory Palestine, after the 1948 war — which was initiated by the Arab armies — it was more than 50 percent for Israel. After 1967, it was 100 percent-plus for Israel,” he says. “And now Israel is, I think, the only country that’s hard to draw on a map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has the two-state solution ever come close to reality?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. President Bill Clinton brought Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin together in 1993 to negotiate the agreement that came to be known as the \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1993-2000/oslo\">Oslo Accords\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, Israel officially recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people and a partner in future negotiations, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal raised expectations for a two-state solution. But it quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206720312/biden-israel-palestinians-presidents-mideast-peace\">began to unravel\u003c/a> after a series of events, including a 1994 attack on a mosque in Hebron by an American Jewish settler and Rabin’s assassination in 1995 by an Israeli settler opposed to the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the Oslo Accords were signed, Israel enhanced its policy of fragmenting Gaza from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, says Atalia Omer, a professor of religion, conflict and peace studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Israeli settlements continued to proliferate in the West Bank — on occupied land that the Palestinians hoped would be part of their state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that has continued in the years since. The population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, grew from 520,000 to more than 700,000 between 2012 and 2022, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/03/human-rights-council-hears-current-israeli-plan-double-settler-population-occupied\">U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Settlements continue to eat into Palestinian spaces,” Omer says. “And over the course of the 30 years since the Oslo Accords — signed in the White House in September 1993 — the settlements completely prevented the possibility of a contiguous sovereign Palestinian state within that two-state framework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the other obstacles?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Discussions of a two-state solution center on a number of core issues, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-us-policy-israeli-palestinian-conflict#chapter-title-0-1\">Council on Foreign Relations\u003c/a> explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is how exactly the borders would be drawn. Most international diplomacy favors Israel reverting to a version of its pre-1967 borders, without a consensus on how that would account for the Palestinians living within those borders or the Jewish Israelis beyond them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel has annexed the whole city of Jerusalem as its capital, while Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of their state — which makes for another logistical question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the major question of Palestinian refugees of the wars of 1948 and 1967. The survivors and their descendants live mostly in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and claim the right to return to Israel based on a 1948 \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/content/resolution-194#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20General%20Assembly,not%20to%20return%20and%20for\">U.N. General Assembly resolution\u003c/a>. Israel views that right to return as a threat to its existence as a Jewish state and believes those refugees should go to the Palestinian state instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security looms large, too. Israel views certain Palestinian militant groups as existential threats — including Hamas, which governs Gaza and whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39775103\">founding charter\u003c/a> called for the obliteration of Israel — and wants them to disarm. Israel wants to maintain the ability to act in Palestinian areas against security threats. Palestinians want an end to Israel’s military occupation and full control over their own security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides want recognition of their respective states by the other and the international community. Palestinians also want acknowledgment of and redress for their forced displacement, Omer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be a recognition and kind of naming, and then put in place mechanisms to redress — how can Palestinians be compensated for historical injustice they experienced — and then figure out ways of respecting Jewish citizens in the space through principles of equality and democracy,” Omer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did peace negotiations stand before this war?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There has been little progress since the turn of the millennium. The collapse of the 2000 peace process fueled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080066/israel-palestine-intifadas-first-second\">Second Intifada\u003c/a>, a major Palestinian uprising in the Israel-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ended in 2005 with some 1,000 Israelis and 3,200 Palestinians dead, along with heightened skepticism of the peace process on both sides. Those feelings seem to have prevailed in the years since, which have been marked by terrorist attacks, military raids, rocket fire, border clashes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-conflict-timeline.html\">other incidents\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Palestinians, meanwhile, had a sense that they couldn’t make an agreement with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189720508/israel-politics-netanyahu-judiciary\">right-wing government\u003c/a> of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that it wasn’t worth giving up rights when demographics were in their favor in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the while, support for a two-state solution has shrunk considerably among \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-palestine#palestinian-and-israeli-support-for-a-two-state-solution-is-shrinking-polls-show\">both Israelis and Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/512828/palestinians-lack-faith-biden-two-state-solution.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication#:~:text=Generational%20Divide%20on%20the%20Two,Palestinians%20aged%2046%20and%20older.\">Gallup poll\u003c/a> released last week — conducted before Hamas’ attack on Israel — found that just 24% of Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem supported a two-state solution. That figure is down from 59% in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/26/israelis-have-grown-more-skeptical-of-a-two-state-solution/\">Pew Research Center poll\u003c/a> released in September found that only 35% of Israelis think “a way can be found for Israel and an independent Palestinian state to coexist peacefully,” a decline of 15 percentage points since 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A decent number of Israelis and Palestinians have come to conclude that it’s not a solution, that the nature of Israeli behavior, especially in the West Bank, makes a Palestinian state unviable,” says Alterman, noting that many members of the Israeli government want to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/14/875593140/as-israel-vows-annexation-palestinian-leaders-embark-on-risky-form-of-protest\">annex the West Bank \u003c/a>altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s too early to say where the current conflict will go, though many Israelis believe Israeli politics are more likely to move to the right than the left in the wake of Hamas’ attack, which killed some 1,400 people in Israel and resulted in more than 220 hostages taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to Israeli officials, I don’t get any sense that part of the strategy is providing a political horizon for Palestinians,” he added, “which is what a peace agreement would ostensibly be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean Israeli citizens aren’t pushing for peace at all. Sally Abed is a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.standing-together.org/about-us\">Standing Together\u003c/a>, an organization that aims to improve Arab-Jewish relations within Israel, and she’s also a Palestinian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t want to think that we needed to endure such loss, such atrocities here in Israel,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/21/1207763482/peace-activists-in-israel-speak-about-their-hopes-for-the-end-of-war\">she told NPR\u003c/a>. “But maybe now I really hope that from this dark corner, we can have this shift in the paradigm on how we actually look at these wars and how, actually, we look at the Israeli control over Gaza and over the West Bank, and really have a different outlook on what our leadership actually should look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the alternatives?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are alternatives to a two-state solution — including a one-state solution, a confederation, annexation and maintaining the status quo — at least in theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA725-1.html\">Rand Corp. focus groups\u003c/a> conducted in 2018 and 2019 found that none of those was acceptable to a majority of both Israelis and Palestinians, underscoring the deep complexities and emotions involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alterman says one of the biggest challenges for Israelis is balancing the need for a Jewish state and a democratic state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a one-state solution that gives citizenship to all of the natural-born residents of Mandatory Palestine — which includes Gaza and the West Bank — you don’t have a Jewish majority,” he explained. “A substantial line of thought [in Israel] is that it’s more important that Israel be Jewish than democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, most Americans — 73% — would choose a democratic over a Jewish Israel, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/americans-opt-for-a-democratic-israel-not-a-jewish-state/\">University of Maryland and Ipsos poll\u003c/a> conducted this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omer is one of many who see the current reality as that of a single state. She points to the exclusionary practices and annexationist policies of the right-wing Netanyahu government, like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/7/19/israel-passes-controversial-jewish-nation-state-law\">2018 law that demoted Arabic\u003c/a> as one of Israel’s official languages, and the recent findings of human rights groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/956020789/israeli-human-rights-group-says-the-country-pursues-nondemocratic-apartheid-regi\">in and beyond Israel\u003c/a> that its practices toward Palestinians \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/\">amount to apartheid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says some Israeli and Palestinian activists support a one-state solution, but in \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080094/what-are-the-two-state-solution-and-the-one-state-solution\">different formats\u003c/a> and for different reasons. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some leftists and Palestinians support the creation of a democratic, secular country in which Arab Muslims would outnumber Jews. But some rightists and Israelis would prefer to see Israel annex the West Bank — either forcing out Palestinians or denying them the right to vote — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2020/06/israeli-annexation-parts-palestinian-west-bank-would-break-international-law-un\">which is illegal\u003c/a> under international human rights law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some activists, like the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.alandforall.org/english/?d=ltr\">A Land for All\u003c/a>, argue that solutions based on separation have failed in the past, and they are instead pushing for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alandforall.org/english-program/?d=ltr\">confederal framework\u003c/a>, with two sovereign states sharing the capital of Jerusalem and an open border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omer says there are “historical examples of life together in this space that is not within the paradigm of domination.” She acknowledges that it’s hard to imagine those kinds of possibilities in this moment but says the need for change is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we can see depends on, also, an expression of how the paradigm that had been there before Oct. 7 is completely collapsing,” she says. “And all these contradictions just cannot be sustained anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People across the Bay Area have been watching in horror at the war between Israel and Hamas. Today, we bring you voices from three different rallies and gatherings that took place over the weekend.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Links:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/11/1205017249/how-to-talk-to-children-violence-israeli-palestinian-gaza-hamas\">How to talk to children about the violence in Israel and Gaza\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9791318874\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep You Rooted. Over the past week, people across the Bay Area have been watching in horror at the war between Israel and Hamas, and they are responding with sadness, anxiety, fear and outrage. On Friday, hundreds dressed in blue carrying Israeli flags gathered outside San Francisco City Hall, calling for the release of hostages still being held by Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>On Saturday, an estimated 3000 people marched from the ferry building, an upmarket street demanding that Israel stop bombarding and blockading Gaza. And at least married in Oakland, Jewish groups calling for the end of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Held a vigil on Sunday to mourn those killed in the war. Today, we’re going to take you to those actions and we’ll hear from the people here in the Bay Area about how they’re feeling in this moment and how they’re processing the events in Israel and Gaza. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>audio from protest*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 6: \u003c/strong>Would you mind just stating your first and last name?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 8: \u003c/strong>Yes. My name is Arthur Zico. I I’m Israeli born and an American citizen now. So at a time like this. You want to feel that you are part of a community who is feeling what you’re feeling. And of course, as a sign of solidarity and support. It’s a sad day for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 9: \u003c/strong>Do you mind saying your first and last name for mme?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 10: \u003c/strong>NEARY. HASAN I’m here because this girl on the poster is a neighbor of my mother. I was raised and born in Kibbutz Nicholas. And on last Friday night, we were celebrating with friends. And someone all of a sudden said, there are rockets over Israel. And we tried to ignore. But then someone said, oh, my terrorists have crossed the border in Gaza. And immediately I felt like, oh, this is so serious. This is like the one worst nightmare I had as a child. I called my mother. She didn’t really know. And I told her, shut off the TV, go into the Mahmoud secure room and close the door, closed the TV, everything. And so we were we are five siblings, so we were following her the entire day until at midnight she was rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 10: \u003c/strong>She’s physically fine, but she’s part of a shattered community. My good friends, his mother was kidnaped. She’s 84. She’s barely walking. We know of Eliakim family, the parents of this beautiful girl who were kidnaped and so many. I don’t know if we have enough synonyms. Just nightmare. All that is just. There are no words anymore. There are no words You don’t liberate by kidnaping, abducting people, slaughtering them. Stop with the equation that Hamas is Palestinian. It’s actually hurting the Palestinians. In my humble opinion, the Hamas is the sole responsible for these atrocities, and this is regardless of any political argument or conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 7: \u003c/strong>Would you mind stating your first and last name real quick, and your title?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Becker: \u003c/strong> Sure, Josh Becker California State Senator, District 13. This rally is about bringing home the hostages and communicating very clearly to Hamas and to the world that they must release the hostages now. And vice chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus. We’ve been in touch with our U.S. senators, our State Department. We are working every angle. And this rally is one of those. No matter how you feel about Middle East politics, we can all agree that kidnaping women and children and the elderly is wrong. It’s a violation of international law. We need them released now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 12: \u003c/strong>Do not mistake this as a fight for freedom. Freedom can never be stopped through brutal, inhumane and barbaric actions. As a citizen of Israel, I stand united with my country in our fight against Hamas. I call on the local, local and global community to stand with Israel as we fight for our lives, our homes and our future. I call on mothers and fathers to voice their horror and rage against these brutal crimes. I call all mothers and fathers to help Israel get our children back alive and safe with no negotiations right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 9: \u003c/strong>Where people are connected by businesses, by what people are still deciding that nothing that’s golden. Step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suzanna Ali: \u003c/strong>My name is Suzanne Ali. I’m an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement Bay Area. This week has been personally so difficult. You know, it’s not a new issue for us. Of course, the mainstream media has been portraying it as if this is something that just a war or a war that broke out like two or three days ago. But this is something that’s been ongoing for us. And having family in in Palestine, specifically me having family in Gaza, in Khan Yunis, which was bombarded last night, as I saw, is really difficult. I’ve lived here my whole life. I’ve gone to school here and I’ve always been faced with, you know, teachers telling me that Palestine doesn’t exist. And that’s horrifying to hear, you know, And to it in this day and age when we’re seeing another genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 5: \u003c/strong>Would have you believe that this race, this notion that we want this violence to happen, that we want to bury close to 600 of our children in the last seven days. But the only thing we want is an end to the occupation and then through colonialism, an end to ethnic cleansing, an end to the siege of Gaza and honest reporting. That is the cruelty. And I think that this is the truth and stop with the propaganda and lies. The year is 2023 when it looks like the headlines read this 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maysa Al-Sharif: \u003c/strong>My name is Maysa. Al-Sharif. I’ve been protesting since I was a kid, and unfortunately I’m here today with my kids now, maybe in the past year. Sure. He’s nine and she’s five. I’ve been telling them the truth that their lives would it matter if they lived there? And it’s not fair that we get to live here and our people got to our family got to leave and we’re safe and they’re not. So I’m letting them know without traumatizing them as much as I could. But I’m definitely letting them know the way that I grew up knowing. We do live in India. They last heard of them days ago. Yeah, they’re not sure where. They know their houses were bombed and they’re not sure where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 9: \u003c/strong>Right. Palestine. Palestine, Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 14: \u003c/strong>Thank you all so, so much for joining us today. It’s so powerful to be here in community with all of you, with other Jews who know that Jewish safety can only come through ending apartheid and ensuring Palestinian safety and freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suzanna Ali: \u003c/strong>Can I get your first and last name?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sidney Levy: \u003c/strong>Yes. Sidney Levy. I’m Jewish, Jewish, American. I’m in solidarity with Palestine. I have family that’s in the Israeli army, family in Israel. I have friends in Palestine on both sides of the border. Everybody is concerned. Everybody is upset and fearful, But nothing justifies what is happening now in Gaza. Last week has been very heavy, has been in mostly despair because so many things that we have been building as a movement of solidarity with Palestine at the beginning seem to be collapsing. What you hear from the U.S. government with all of the support, with all of that, it’s just incredible. But I think that people are waking up from their grief, which is still real into action. So one of the ways to deal with the despair is not to fall into the oppression, which I was depressed last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sidney Levy: \u003c/strong>And it’s just moving into action and just saying, we’re here, we’re opposed to what is happening, and we want a different world, a world without apartheid. It’s not that hard. A friend of mine was saying that in order to move from A to B, from the violence to action, you have to pass through the grief. And somebody was commenting here, it’s very hard to pursue the grief because the violence and the killing is still happening is taking place. So you’re grieving not only for the people that have died, but for the people that will continue to die, unfortunately. And that’s why you have to be able to hold both the community and the grief, but also the action, because there are things that we can still stop. We cannot stop the people that were killed yesterday. We can stop the killings. 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And somebody was commenting here, it’s very hard to pursue the grief because the violence and the killing is still happening is taking place. So you’re grieving not only for the people that have died, but for the people that will continue to die, unfortunately. And that’s why you have to be able to hold both the community and the grief, but also the action, because there are things that we can still stop. We cannot stop the people that were killed yesterday. We can stop the killings. That will happen tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 7: \u003c/strong>We’re all grieving for so, so many people right now. And I think we’re also all grieving for something that’s beyond people or values or a Jewish community that we can trust. I mean, on our Mardi Gras day, the higher ground, your man on fire the whole day. It’s like a gala, man. You. I mean, the whole schmear. 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And, in particular, we here in the United States demand that this government stop its complicity with the Israeli apartheid system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-21-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person wearing a red headscarf with \"Free Gaza\" written on their cheek.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-21-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-21-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-21-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-21-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-21-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-21-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haneen Hammad, with ‘Free Gaza’ painted on her face, listens to speeches by community leaders during a pro-Palestine protest in San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hajj stressed that there is a complex history behind the recent violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people are caged, they want to be free. You cannot trap 2 million people in … the world’s largest open-air prison and not expect them to fight tooth-and-nail for their freedom,” said Hajj. “You can’t expect people to roll over and die. You can’t expect Palestinians to do that. And so I think what I would ask is why have we allowed the situation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters held up signs and waved Palestinian flags. Nearby, a group supporting Israel also waved flags and held signs. At one point, a scuffle erupted between the two groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963855 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people in an urban setting waving red, black, white and green flags.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd of thousands of pro-Palestine protestors gather in the Embarcadero in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A service held Sunday at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco attracted hundreds voicing support for Israel. Among those present was former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who condemned the attack by Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they did was outside the circle of civilized human behavior,” said Pelosi. U.S. officials say they plan to send additional military equipment and ammunition to Israel in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963851 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people holding white and blue flags chant and yell in an urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Israel supporters shout and chant back at pro-Palestine supporters in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11873860,news_11874353\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Bay Area residents with ties to Israel and the Palestinian territories are watching in horror as many civilians — sometimes friends and relatives — cling to safety amid ongoing violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manny Yekutiel, owner of Manny’s restaurant and a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board member, arrived in Israel late last week for family and religious celebrations. His trip was disrupted by the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians in half a century on Saturday and spoke of the human toll as explosions took place above him in Tel Aviv.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one, especially no child, should have to feel that fear,” said Yekutiel. “And unfortunately, that is happening in Israel and that is happening in Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said most of the citizens are sheltering in place, while he and others have joined a large volunteer effort to bring food, water and clothing to those in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need to help each other get through this extremely unprecedented time,” said Yekutiel. “And there’s a lot of pain in the air, too. Imagine someone of your own family being kidnapped and taken away. And so there’s this feeling of duty as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-10-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963854 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-10-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with their fist raised in a large crowd of people in an urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-10-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-10-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-10-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-10-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-10-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-10-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pro-Palestine protestor chants along with the crowd as they move through the streets in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watching the images pour out from places she’s called home is both fresh and familiar for Palestinian American poet Priscilla Wathington who now lives in Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a human, I can feel the suffering and feel intense grief for the suffering of every human in the world and at the same time consider structural elements,” said Wathington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wathington wishes more of her fellow Americans would take an interest in U.S. foreign policy toward Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, saying U.S. efforts should focus on ensuring that everyone in the region has full human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963852 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-07-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person is restrained by uniformed officers while yelling in a large group of people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-07-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-07-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-07-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-07-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-07-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-07-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scuffle erupts from high tensions between a pro-Israel and a pro-Palestine crowd during a protest in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Yankulin of San Francisco attended the service at Congregation Sherith Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of Jews feel connected to that land,” he said. “When something happens [there], we feel it here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is hoping for an end to the violence. “To stop senseless murder, to stop and to just seek peace … the solution is peace. Nobody wants more killing. So that’s the most important part. That’s what I hope for. And I think every single person here hopes for the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas officials cited long-simmering tensions including a dispute over the sensitive Al-Aqsa Mosque sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Competing claims over the site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, have spilled into violence before, including a bloody 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Israeli religious nationalists — such as Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister — have increased their visits to the compound. Last week, during the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews and Israeli activists visited the site, prompting condemnation from Hamas and accusations that Jews were praying there in violation of the status quo agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas also has cited the expansion of Jewish settlements on lands Palestinians claim for a future state and Ben-Gvir’s efforts to toughen restrictions on Palestinian prisoners in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions escalated with recent violent Palestinian protests. In negotiations with Qatar, Egypt and the United Nations, Hamas has pushed for Israeli concessions that could loosen the 17-year blockade on the enclave and help halt a worsening financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini and Ted Goldberg contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It is 2 million people living in prison, what we want is for those 2 million people to be free in Gaza, we want all Palestinians to be able to live on their ancestral lands,” said Waseem Hajj with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center based in San Francisco, one of the groups that organized the Sunday rally. “We want the occupation over. 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You cannot trap 2 million people in … the world’s largest open-air prison and not expect them to fight tooth-and-nail for their freedom,” said Hajj. “You can’t expect people to roll over and die. You can’t expect Palestinians to do that. And so I think what I would ask is why have we allowed the situation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters held up signs and waved Palestinian flags. Nearby, a group supporting Israel also waved flags and held signs. At one point, a scuffle erupted between the two groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963855 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people in an urban setting waving red, black, white and green flags.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-16-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd of thousands of pro-Palestine protestors gather in the Embarcadero in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A service held Sunday at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco attracted hundreds voicing support for Israel. Among those present was former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who condemned the attack by Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they did was outside the circle of civilized human behavior,” said Pelosi. U.S. officials say they plan to send additional military equipment and ammunition to Israel in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963851 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people holding white and blue flags chant and yell in an urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231008-Pro-Palestine-March-in-San-Francisco-03-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Israel supporters shout and chant back at pro-Palestine supporters in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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